Alphabet Soup: An A to Z of Abbreviations

This is a cracking little book; it is easy to use and was a pleasure to browse. Do not let the jokey title, cheap price and rather rough paper deceive you, this is a book worthy of hard covers and a higher price! Dictionaries of abbreviations there are aplenty, and like dictionaries of quotations, they never date: who now remembers that BL once stood for British Leyland in non‐library minds? But BL remains embedded in print and a future reader may puzzle that the British Library once made cars! What is important, though, is that new abbreviations are captured and...