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Quiz: What does the Irish acronym stand for?

TYSOTQ. (Test yourself on this quiz).

WE HAVE A habit of calling a lot of things in Ireland by their acronyms.

But have we lost sight of their meanings?

Test yourself.

Specialised Irish Professionals and Technicians Union
Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union

Sector of Irish Professionals and Technicians Union
Combined Acceptance Organisation
College Applications Office

Central Applications Office
Projected Rate of Societal Impact
Pay Related Social Insurance

Payment Rate on Signed Income
Industrial Development Authority
Irish Development Agency

Industries Deployment Agency
Irish Builders and Electricians Coalition
Irish Business and Employers' Confederation

Industrial Business and Employers' Coalition
Census and Statistics Office
Central Strategic Organisation

Central Statistics Office
Director of Public Prosecutions
Direct Provision Planners

Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Money Accountancy Buyers Service

Midlands Advisory for Budgeting and Saving
New Car Test
National Car Test

Nationwide Checking and Testing
Notes Treasury and Money Association
National Treasury Management Agency

Nationwide Treasury Managers' Association
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FIFA
Oh you bad acronym you
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FIFA
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RTE
You're not perfect, but you're not a bad oul acronym all the same
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You're a fine healthy Irish acronym all the same
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You're a fine healthy Irish acronym all the same
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NASA
King of the acronyms, sure you're quite literally out of this world
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NASA
King of the acronyms, sure you're quite literally out of this world
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    Mute Mark Stanley
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:05 PM

    10/10. Get in. My biggest achievement of 2015 so far

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    Mute Brian Ó Dálaigh
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:16 PM

    Poor year? Don’t worry. 2016 is nearly here!

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    Mute Sam
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    Dec 29th 2015, 2:18 AM

    Me too! What a way to end the year

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    Mute Reg
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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:35 PM

    CSO should be Central Statictics Office!

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    Mute Michael Gargan
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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:36 PM

    It’s broken – just did a check and it says every answer for that question is wrong – ruined my perfect score too! :)

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    Mute Ariana
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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:38 PM

    This 9/10 is bothering me.

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    Mute Pharmyco
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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:38 PM

    That’s right. Stupid quiz

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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:05 PM

    I won’t be able to sleep now I’m so infuriated

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    Mute mark lally
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:31 PM

    It is!

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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:35 PM

    What are statictics ?

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    Mute Cian O Donoghue
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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:43 PM

    Doesn’t matter, 73% are made up.

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    Mute Theresa Cronin
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    Dec 29th 2015, 1:20 AM

    Thank God they fixed that one – I’d have been gutted with a 9/10.
    Life is tough enough without being made to feel stupid when yer not!

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    Mute Caroline Urch
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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:37 PM

    CSO – Central Stastics Office!!

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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:05 PM

    What did it say before they fixed it?

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    Mute Aisling Naughton
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:04 PM

    Misuse of the word “acronym”!!

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    Mute Neil Holland
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:32 PM

    SIPTU & MABS are the only acronyms here – you don’t know what that word means. Embarrassed for you.

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    Mute Damien McDaid
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    Dec 29th 2015, 3:02 AM

    IBEC is one also, mate.

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    Mute AARO-SAURUS
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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:38 PM

    Absolute hack of that.

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    Mute de la Rey
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:23 PM

    Strictly speaking most of these are not acronyms

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    Mute Neil Holland
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:33 PM

    SIPTU & MABS are.

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    Mute Neil Holland
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:40 PM

    Yeah, missed tat one. Didn’t do the quiz as the title annoyed me, so I just scanned over it shaking my head.

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    Mute Colm Guerin
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:41 PM

    No, the remainder are initialisms.

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    Mute Neil Holland
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:59 PM

    @ Colm – initialisms & acronyms are both types of abbreviations.

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    Mute Colm Guerin
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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:13 PM

    @ Neil – yes, they’re sub-classes. But if someone describes one sub-class as acronyms, you can’t describe another as abbreviations, hence the remainder are still initialisms.

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    Mute Neil Holland
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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:14 PM

    Agreed, Colm.

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    Mute Colm Guerin
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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:17 PM

    @ Neil – apologies, my previous comment reads far more severe than I meant it. I read far more grammar text books than is healthy.

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    Mute Neil Holland
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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:25 PM

    NASA and WHO aren’t in the quiz, which is why neither have been discussed.

    NASA is an acronym. WHO is an initialism.

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    Mute Neil Holland
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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:45 PM

    People say ‘NASA’ as a word – so it’s an acronym. Unlike WHO, which nobody calls “who”.

    Initialisms & acronyms are both types of abbreviations.

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    Mute John Ward
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    Dec 29th 2015, 12:04 AM

    @Colm Guerin: Check out the adverb, severely!

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    Mute Colm Guerin
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    Dec 29th 2015, 1:12 AM

    @John Ward – Surely you mean “Check out the adverb, ‘severely’!” rather than “Severely, check out the adverb!” I’ll do the former, certainly.

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    Mute Colm Guerin
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:38 PM

    Slightly pedantic, but strictly speaking only SIPTU, IBEC, and MABS are acronyms.

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    Mute Dave Thomas
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:27 PM

    Woo hoo, I’m king of the acronyms

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    Mute Declan McArdle
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:23 PM

    Great. Now capitalise the second and subsequent letters when using these acronyms in articles instead of using lower case letters.

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    Mute Will Black
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:16 PM

    Soft test

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    Mute Pat Gorman
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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:41 PM

    The fact that not even one of them is in the Irish language proves Icelanders right when they describe the Irish as “English Slaves”.

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    Dec 29th 2015, 12:29 AM

    A lot of people got 9 or 10 right does anyone believe if the Irish language was used the results would be higher than 2or 3?

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    Dec 29th 2015, 12:17 AM

    10/10 – not sure if I’m glad or sad…

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    Mute Gene Parmesan
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:37 PM

    NASA!

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    Mute mark lally
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:32 PM

    10/10

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    Dec 29th 2015, 12:11 AM

    Really scraping at the bottom of the barrel now.

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    Dec 28th 2015, 11:10 PM

    Too easy

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    Dec 29th 2015, 9:00 AM

    It’s not a valid Irish acronym contest without including GUBU!

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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:50 PM

    Horseford! CSO? Lazy Quiz Journalism!

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    Mute Brian Ó Dálaigh
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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:56 PM

    They must have fixed it since. I got 10/10.

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Dec 28th 2015, 9:59 PM

    Yep…they fixed it. 10/10

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    Mute Dermot Butterfield
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    Dec 29th 2015, 6:26 AM

    10 out 10 but points should be deducted from the journel since with the exception of MABS these are initialisms not acronyms.

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    Dec 28th 2015, 10:51 PM

    I.E.F.

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