YAFLA
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The YAFLA (yet another five-letter acronym or yet another five-letter abbreviation) is a play on the humorous abbreviation YATLA (yet another three-letter acronym). YATLA is often used in the context of poking fun at the prevalence of three letter abbreviations, primarily in the technology industry, itself introducing a five-letter abbreviation, thus providing an obvious impetus for the YAFLA abbreviation.
[edit] Background
YAFLA is a five-letter abbreviation itself; the term was almost certainly coined with a certain degree of self-referential humor in mind.
[edit] Description
Using only upper-case letters, there are 26^5; = 11,881,376 possible five-letter abbreviations. If numbers, special characters, or case-sensitivity are allowed, even more FLAs can be created.
