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MOOC, COOC, SPOC, SOOC...


The world's longest acronym, according to the Guinness Book of World Records is

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT

(Нииомтплабопармбетжелбетрабсбомонимонконотдтехстромонт).

The 56-letter acronym (54 in Cyrillic) is from the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology and means "The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."

(научно-исследовательская [...] лаборатория операций по армированию бетона и железобетонных работ по сооружению сборно-монолитных и монолитных конструкций отдела технологии строительно-монтажного управления)

Today, I want to share with you few other acronyms such like MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) or COOCs, SPOCs ...


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