Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn’t translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.
Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.
There’s a11y and l10n. What else is there?
Somewhat similar: k8s
Kubernetes is fine because it’s easy to keep track of, it looks and pronounces similar to the real word.
O11y for “observability”, though, that one’s pretty rough. And people trying to make the pronunciation “ollie” make me see red.
What’s a11y?
“Accessibility.” It mainly refers to computer accessibility (like websites and apps). Ironic that a common word for accessibility is inaccessible to people who don’t know what it means
Accessibility
I learned about a11y like a year ago, and thought it was 1337 speak for ally until I looked it up, and only then (like 20 years after first seeing it) did I realize what i18n meant.