Quote Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)
The term tank isn't as objectionable as those pesky abreviations like SK, PK, UK, USAK, SWK..... etc. etc. It's all insider language and it means nothing to those new to kilts. The vendors certainly don't reap much benefit from it. A glossary would help, but better yet, just drop the idiomatic vernacularisms.


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Blu, I think you know how much I dislike the term "tank" in connection with our beloved kilts, but I have to agree with you about the ghastly abbreviations - and I write as a lifetime kilt wearer, not a newbie!! Fair enough, I confess to using "TFCK" for "21st Century Kilts" from time to time, but will endeavour not to do so in future. "UK" for "Utilikilts" is one of my pet hates because of the existing "UK" for "United Kingdom"!

There are many abbreviations that North Americans use which are totally meaningless to those of us who live elsewhere, and I suppose some of them can be blamed on mobile telephone texting (I will not have a 'mobile' so I am allowed to criticise!!) and on-line chat-rooms (which I do not frequent!). I'm thinking of examples such as "SS", "SH", "SD", etc. which have puzzled me and I have given up on recently.

Very often I simply cannot be bothered to continue reading posts containing abbreviations I do not immediately recognise.