Acronym Glossary

[rfernand]

Here's a first, non-exhaustive pass of acronyms we tend to use here. I hope new members find this useful.
Common shorthand
B&M - Brick and Mortar store

FS - For Sale

FT - For Trade

PAD - Pipe Acquisition Disorder

TAD - Tobacco Acquisition Disorder

WTT - Want To Trade

WTB - Want to Buy
Online retailers

P&C - Sometimes PC, pipesandcigars.com

SP - smokingpipes.com (sometimes SPC, but conflicts with Seattle Pipe Club)
Brands and companies and such
BAT - British Ameeican Tobacco

C&D - or CD, Cornell & Diehl

DH - Dunhill

ET - Esoterica Tobacciana

F&T - Fribourg and Treyer

GH - sometimes G&H, Gawith, Hoggarth & Co.

HH - Hearth & Home

LL - Lane Limited

GLP - Greg L. Pease

MB - Mac Baren

SG - Samuel Gawith

SPC - Seattle Pipe Club

STG - Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Blend names
ASTB - And so to bed

BB - Baby's Bottom, currently known as, BB1938

CB - Captain Black

CBP - Cut Blended Plug

CH - Carter Hall

CVP - Cut Virginia Plug

EMP - Early Morning Pipe

FM - Frog Morton (and friends, such as FMOTB Frog Morton on the Bayou)

FVF - Full Virginia Flake

MM - My Mixture (could be shorthand for the popular MM965, My Mixture No. 965)

OGS - Orlik Golden Sliced

PA - Prince Albert

RR - Ready Rubbed

RY - Royal Yacht
Blend ingredients and types and chemicals
N - Nicotine

PG - Propylene Glycol

VA - A Virginia blend or Virginia tobacco

VaPer - A Virginia-based, Perique-complemented blend

 

[Chasing Embers]

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/terminology
And this.

 

[carver]

Thanks, very useful, no mention of McC.

Thanks Duane for the link, learned many things there too !! ::

 

[jerwynn]

VOILA! Pipeoterminoetymology 101!

 

[jpmcwjr]

They're abbreviations for the most part, and: Thank you, r.
And it's swell when used first time in a thread that the whole thing is spelled out to save folks scrambling to the list.

 

[Chasing Embers]

A pity there's no mention of kapnismology or lunting.