Word Matters Podcast - The Word of the Day

It seems like new abbreviations sprout up daily, so what's a dictionary to do? This heyday of abbreviations is problematic for us as lexicographers. T l, d r met our criteria for entry because we had encountered it in enough published, edited text. O m g was one of the best known ones, at least in lexiographic circles,. But then it doesn't show up again until 19 94. And there are a number of abbreviations which can occasionally be much older than we think.