I know the wiki origin puts SNAFU as appearing during WWII as the first in a long line of military slang, BUT, years ago I recollect reading in an electronics magazine, likely 'Wireless World' from...

Roughly when did the word "snafu" enter the colloquial vernacular? It was a military term, but at some point it came into fairly common use among the general population.

Feb 29, 2016 · 6 According to vocabulary.com snafu, the old possibly offensive military term, is nowadays used to refer to any kind of problem: Snafu was originally a World War II-era military …

Nov 26, 2012 · 11 Snafu has not so much changed its meaning over time as come to be used by a larger linguistic community. Nevertheless, words do change their meaning over time. Where a word …

Feb 24, 2014 · The word snafu, for example, was originally an obscene U.S. Army reference (situation normal -- all f'ed up"), and fad is purportedly originally an acronym for "for a day". Some terms, such …

Nov 4, 2024 · 2 Personally, I like the acronym explanation as provided by acronymfinder: Total Inability To Support Usual Performance. It aligns nicely with one of the other classic expressions - SNAFU. It …

What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym? asked about pluralising acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms, but is there a standard way to add verb endings e.g. -ing and -ed (what are these c...

Sep 6, 2014 · I came across the slang term "Goldbrick" in the American WWII cartoon Private Snafu The Goldbrick (Warning: possibly sexist at the start, and possibly racist near the end).

Nov 6, 2020 · From " If You Say Snafu or O.K. You're Using an Acronym," in the Breckenridge [Texas] American (July 9, 1947): ALBUQUERQUE, N [ew] M [exico].—Basic English may be the coming …

Apr 13, 2017 · The most famous examples are OK, for which the origin may be lost, and snafu and fubar, whose origins are known by few that say them. I posit that FYI is also now a "normal" word, …