Embarrassing truth: totally thought a common abbreviation on here meant something else until now.

[Anonymous]

UMC. I mean obviously it means upper middle class. Obviously. Except I started reading DCUM when I was looking to buy a house and really only ever read the real estate forum. I kid you not I thought it meant "university of Maryland college" and I kept thinking wow a lot of people work there. I know I'm an idiot. I always saw it in the context of "interesting neighborhood, lots of UMC people there" and I just assumed they meant employees of the university. Yeah I know.

[Anonymous]

I would think the same.

[Anonymous]

Me too. Univ of MD College Park.

[Anonymous]

Aw, that's funny Op!

[Anonymous]

Well, I thought it was United Methodist Church... and wondered why there were so many of them around...

[Anonymous]

I thought the same thing OP! Too funny. And then I thought it meant United Methodist Church, as a PP mentioned. Took me a while to get it haha.

[Anonymous]

While we're in it -- what does s/o stand for? Seeking out? Speaking of? Spin off? Used to be on a ton of topics, not so much anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While we're in it -- what does s/o stand for? Seeking out? Speaking of? Spin off? Used to be on a ton of topics, not so much anymore.

In the context of threads here, it means spin off.

[Anonymous]

When I first started reading dcum, I thought TIA was a person's name...who posted very often

[Anonymous]

We need a reference page. I wouldn’t have known UMC. I remember googling “bump” years ago because I had no idea why people would reply with that single word. Finally I asked a close friend and she explained.

[Anonymous]

I thought “DC” “DS” “DD” meant dead child ... etc.
Someone told me that and I took their word for it I guess. It would be appalling the way some people would reference their deceased children, so casually like it’s nothing. I figured parents with deceased children probably want a place to talk and Internet forums must be a nice way to connect. It wasn’t until a friend added me to a Facebook Mom group, they had all of the abbreviations explained.

I thought this way for YEARS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I first started reading dcum, I thought TIA was a person's name...who posted very often

That made me chuckle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need a reference page. I wouldn’t have known UMC. I remember googling “bump” years ago because I had no idea why people would reply with that single word. Finally I asked a close friend and she explained.

There is one. Go to the General Parenting forum and you'll find a sticky thread at the top of the forum where people ask what abbreviations mean. It's long, but virtually every acronym used on DCUM is covered. If you find one that isn't you can ask and someone will answer. It may take a couple of days because people don't always read the thread but it will be answered.

[Anonymous]

What does DP mean? I know OP, PP, NP (original, previous, new poster).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does DP mean? I know OP, PP, NP (original, previous, new poster).

Different Poster/Double Penatration. Depends on the context.