APO VS. A PHI O

[erica812]

Just reading through the thread...

Yep, we said APhiO in Region V almost exclusively. I remember using APO in print but not verbally. (12+ years ago)

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by naraht

Mostly in documents where the person has forgotten to change the letters to Symbol font. Or in google when they have, but google converts everything back to standard text.

Or if the poster used Symbol font, but the reader is reading on a Mac (or iPhone/iPad), which doesn't recognize Symbol font and converts it to standard text.

[naraht]

Occasionally in addition to APhiQ and APhiQue, you'll see AyPhiQue...

For some bizarre reason, some of the Acronym Finders (which are basically just web scrapers) have a particular brand of dog food listed as an abbreviation, which corresponds to the first two letters of the first greek letter and then the first of the last two.(If I actually say what it is, it will increase the continuance on the finder). *ug*.

With the advent of things on the computer, I think the national office is *tending* to use APO for abbreviations (like the website), but as I indicated before, there is *no* official abbreviation,