1 A dish, principally aimed at children, in which the pasta in a Minestrone is in the form of the letters of the alphabet. (In the UK, "Alphabetti Spaghetti".)

	1 The hell of TrulyHorribleAcronyms we all live in nowadays in which vendors come up with more and more libraries and we can't remember what any of them do.

See also: ThreeLetterAcronym''''''s (TLA)
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Alphabet soups as of 2005: 
XML, DTD, XSD, CSS, XHTML, XSL, XSP, SOAP, XML-RPC, WSDL, UDDI, WS-I, WS-*, SAX, DOM, JAXP, JAXB, RDF, J2EE, J2ME, JTS, JTA, JMS, EJB, JDO, SOA, JSP, JSF, AJAX

''Bingo!''

The above would be approximately for a job interview related to "java enterprise".
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We used to exchange media on tapes, records, and disks.  Now we use CD's, CD-ROM's, and DVD's.  Notice the apostrophes, which are proper for pluralizing alphabet soup, but I fear this helps encourage people to use them in other inappropriate place's.  I suppose we still need the acronyms to distinguish CD's from DVD's, but I wish we'd taken the 80's approach so that we could call DVD's "double-density disks".

Why are the apostrophes ''appropriate''? They seem unnecessary.

''Apostrophes are acceptable for acronyms, according to most authorities I'm aware of.''

See discussion at EatsShootsAndLeaves.

[Hey, pals, 'CD' and 'DVD' are ''abbreviations''. AcronymVsAbbreviation.]

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