The English language is being increasingly condensed; sometimes it is appropriate, most of the time it isn’t. Here are 13 occasions when the human tendency to condense words resulted in extremely unfortunate abbreviations, for which we are extremely grateful.

As usual with these things, the contents of some of these pictures are not for the easily offended… the clue’s in the title.

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