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Lemme guess, hot for words? …

Lemme guess, hot for words?

Foiled
I know the cartoon! It was Duddley Doright and the “Curses, foiled again!” was the evil Snidely Whiplash!
Nightmare 2008
I have never heard of a fecal _nightmare_ before, although I did experience a rude awakening to find that our cat shat it the bathroom sink (the stinking little incubus).
Bear and Bull Markets
I think we can call this market a big stinking RAT market.
RIP
Repulsion
Zoology
That is a good point.
It would be useful for those that extract information from electronic databases and web sources to have systems to identify the use of initials from other short text strings.

The MEDLINE database at the National Library of Medicine (accessed through PubMed) uses the “minimal punctuation” format when displaying citations. But it also has “fields” or “metadata” that can be accessed to identify the type of terms used (for example the AU field for authors).

Interestingly, I have never seen the mention of an authors qualifications or degree title in a Medline record and it is not common to see titles stated in print versions of scientific publications either.

But you are absolutly right that short text strings can lead to confusion and perhaps old fashioned punctuation would have helped resolve some of that – although I don’t think the NLM will change their author citation policy!