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If you are coming to the UK from abroad, you will need to make sure that any 'mains' electrical equipment you bring will work all right with our plugs and supply.
Important Letters - Everyday Abbreviations
Discover everyday abbreviations like BBC and VIP. Practise recognising what letters stand for, how to write them, and when to use full stops in English.
1 .
Pick the best answer to complete the gap/s in clear, accurate and sensible English.
'Britain did more (and better) trade with her neighbouring nations when she was a member of the ... ... '
'Britain did more (and better) trade with her neighbouring nations when she was a member of the ... ... '
UK
US
UE
EU
2 .
Pick the best answer to complete the gap/s in clear, accurate and sensible English.
'There are so many phone companies in Britain now, but the one that used to be part of the Post Office is now called ... ... .'
'There are so many phone companies in Britain now, but the one that used to be part of the Post Office is now called ... ... .'
BP
BT
TB
TGB
' ... British Telecommunications plc', to give it its full title.
3 .
Pick the best answer to complete the gap/s in clear, accurate and sensible English.
If you see a PC walking and talking in the street, what does this abbreviation most likely stand for?
If you see a PC walking and talking in the street, what does this abbreviation most likely stand for?
Personal Computer
Parish Church
Police Constable
Politically correct
These are all possible Answers for 'PC', but only No.3 makes any sense!
4 .
At a rather humbler level, many more British people achieve GCSE qualifications in their mid-teenage years. What do these initials stand for?
General Certificate of Secondary Education
General Certificate of Satisfactory Education
Government Certificate of Satisfactory Education
Government Certificate of Satisfied Expectation
In this case the first Answer was right.
5 .
Pick the best answer to complete the gap/s in clear, accurate and sensible English.
If swimmers or boaters need to be rescued from a dangerous situation in the waters around the British Isles, the organisation that will come out to help them is the ...
If swimmers or boaters need to be rescued from a dangerous situation in the waters around the British Isles, the organisation that will come out to help them is the ...
RSPCA
RNLI
NSPCC
RoSPA
This is the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
The others offered here are: the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Answer 1), the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (3) and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (4) ... each a very worthy organisation. From this you may fairly confidently infer that an organisation whose initials begin 'RS ...' will be a Royal Society, and an 'NS...' will be a national group of some sort. (The RNLI is both Royal and National, of course.)
The others offered here are: the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Answer 1), the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (3) and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (4) ... each a very worthy organisation. From this you may fairly confidently infer that an organisation whose initials begin 'RS ...' will be a Royal Society, and an 'NS...' will be a national group of some sort. (The RNLI is both Royal and National, of course.)
6 .
If you see an official notice, or some graffiti, with four letters such as '[X]UFC', what is this likely to be about?
A friendly club
A furniture company
A football club
A free chocolate
... such as Manchester United ( ' MUFC ' ).
7 .
One of the biggest national organisations is the TUC, which represents the interests of working people across a wide variety of jobs. What do the initials stand for?
Totally Universal Club
Trade University College
Trades Union Congress
Training and Upkeep Corporation
This is the TUC which has an annual national meeting, comparable for scale with the major political parties' conferences.
8 .
If you are coming to the UK from abroad, you will need to make sure that any 'mains' electrical equipment you bring will work all right with our plugs and supply. The pins are rectangular, and our electricity comes at 240 volts AC. What does the 'AC' stand for here?
Automatic charge
Always constant
Automatic current
Alternating current
This means that the current is reversed (at a rate of 50 cycles per second) rather than being supplied 'direct'.
9 .
Meanwhile you go one evening to a public building, where a number of other meetings are being held in different rooms. One of the rooms is signposted, fairly discreetly, 'AA meeting'. What would that meeting be about?
Battery-driven equipment ('AA', 'AAA' etc.)
The Automobile Association (one of GB's major motorists' clubs)
Alcoholics Anonymous
The African Alliance
This valuable organisation has meetings in most towns, since (sadly) there seems to be a growing need for it.
As far as we know, there is no regular 'AA' use along the lines of Answer 1, and the car drivers' club does not often hold local meetings. Answer 4 was a complete invention!
As far as we know, there is no regular 'AA' use along the lines of Answer 1, and the car drivers' club does not often hold local meetings. Answer 4 was a complete invention!
10 .
Someone who has given important and valuable service to the country might be awarded the OBE : what do these initials stand for, here?
Official Best Effort
Order of the British Empire
Oxford Business Expert
Original Brilliance Estimate
Answer 2 is the only appropriate one here.
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In the languages of some member states within this organisation, the letters appear as 'UE', but in English they appear as shown in Answer 4.
There's little point in thinking of 'Britain as a member of the UK' since Great Britain and the UK are virtually the same thing. (Not to be confused with 'the British Isles', which would include the Isle of Man and the southern majority of the island of Ireland!)