Posts by Sophia Wilson

BWT shows up in texts and comments often enough to make people stop and guess, but it does not have the same settled definition as its more famous cousin, BTW.…

MH is one of the shortest texting abbreviations out there, and that brevity is exactly why it confuses people. Two letters can carry a full acknowledgment, a distracted shrug, or…

IKKK is one of those texting shortcuts that looks confusing the first time you see it, but it is simpler than it appears once you know where it comes from.…

BBW is a texting and internet abbreviation that stands for "big beautiful woman." You'll see it in dating app bios, social media captions, and text conversations, and depending on where…

SMTH is one of the simplest pieces of texting shorthand out there, but it still trips people up the first time they see it, especially out of context. If you…

WTV lands in a chat and, most of the time, it lands with an attitude attached. In everyday texting, WTV is shorthand for "whatever," and like the full word itself,…

"Uhm" turning up mid-text usually means exactly what it sounds like: someone pausing to think before they finish a thought. Unlike an acronym with a hidden expansion, uhm is a…

PH shows up in texts, captions, and work chats without much warning, and it almost never means the same thing twice. In everyday texting, PH is most often short for…

WYDN means "what you doing now?" It is a casual texting abbreviation for asking what someone is up to at this moment. The added N stands for "now," which separates…

MYF has two well-documented meanings in text: "miss your face" and "my fault." The first is an affectionate way to say you miss someone. The second is a quick, casual…