Hi Gwoof, I don't use the acronyms but I'm not offended by them although I found them irritating when I first joined GransNet. Some are a bit misleading e.g. SiL (could be son or sister-in-law) and some people are D (DD, DM, DGC etc) but others are not valued as highly e.g. OH! If I fall out with my son, does he go from DS to S until we're back on speaking terms? ? Anyway, what I'm saying is, you soon get used to reading them and you don't have to use them yourself. All the lengthy ones are in the word bank on my kindle so I don't have to type out the whole thing.