IN the real world ...............

[kme]

When I went to college ccu was cooker control unit . If people want ccu to be fuse box thats fine by me.Batty

I think in a lot of cases, it is easy to work out what is being refered to by the acronym, from the context of the rest of the post.It would be a bit petty to correcting people all the time.

I must admit, that I have not come accross the phrase Customer Control Unit before. When I googled it, I could not find it, however I could find Consumer Unit, and Cooker Control/Connection Unit.

Wow `pache. I`ve been here since Admin was young; and I`d NEVER seen CCU for a cons. unit.

Must agree withLurchio, and the two posters above here, though. Call it what you want. I know CCU as both cooker connection unit, AND cooker control unit. If I think that I need to confirm which one I`m talking about, I`d write it out. AFAIAC, CU is a cons. unit. I see no need whatsoever to prefix it with "customer`s". Who else`s might it be??

If we REALLY want to be pedantic, though, we could adopt the following:

C`sCU - Customers consumer unit

CCUP - Cooker control unit (with Plug)

CCU - Cooker Conection Unit.

Personally, I`d go with Spinny here - If I can`t tell what is being discussed by the context, something is wrong!

KME

 

[ianmacd]

Then you really must open your eyes KME as there are loads of threads that reference CCU as customer consumer unit and I would put money (well not mine obviously) on that you have contributed to a number of those threads.

 

[Mr Smith]

mr smith knows

that a CCU

is where my patients go to get better

mr smith

 

[Apache]

mr smith knowsthat a CCU

is where my patients go to get better

mr smith

Then you're not a real doctor.

The CCU is where patients usually go before the morgue!



:coat

(was my first thought when I saw CCU)

 

[Mr Smith]

Then you're not a real doctor.

mr smith makes a mental note of mr apache s comment

mr smith is not very impressed with comments such as this

 

[Apache]

mr smith makes a mental note of mr apache s commentmr smith is not very impressed with comments such as this

bad day explode

content again?

 

[spinlondon]

I don't understand why anyone would call a Consumer Unit a Customer Consumer Unit?

Aren't Customer and Consumer just different words for the same thing?

Now Consumer Control Unit I can understand, or perhaps even Customer Control Unit.

Seems to me however, that CU for Consumer Unit and CCU for Cooker Connection/Control Unit would save confusion.

 

[ianmacd]

If you really want to save confusion then not using any tla's or abreviations would be best would it not?

 

[kme]

If you really want to save confusion then not using any tla's or abreviations would be best would it not?

Sorry - what`s a "tla"????

KME

 

[ianmacd]

A tla is a tla (Three letter acronym).

 

[spinlondon]

Are you sure? I thought it was a two letter acronym.

 

[kme]

A tla is a tla (Three letter acronym).

Are you sure? I thought it was a two letter acronym.

AH! Thank you. I didn`t know that one - did you make it up??Wet Fish

Spinny - can`t you count, mate? (t=1,l=2,a=3) easy:coat

What would help is if acronyms were capitalised:x

And maybe is we stuck to the ones in the abbreviatons thread.

KME

 

[Lurch]

ETLA.