For years, I wondered what “UPD” meant and why it appeared tagged on to posts and comments. For years.
Googling it, of course, was not an option because come on.
And then, finally, by pure chance, I saw somebody posting it in Russian, and even though “АПД” means nothing whatsoever in Russian, I finally figured out what it means.
It’s a nice feeling.
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So for those of us who don’t speak Russian, which is the correct answer?
Union for Development, a political party in Macao
Union for Peace and Development, a political party in Burundi
Union, Progress and Democracy, a political party in Spain
Underpotential deposition, electro-deposition of a metal
Uniparental disomy, a chromosomal abnormality
Universal Print Driver, a LaserJet print driver by Hewlett-Packard
Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake
Urban planned development, a governmental designation for an urban village-style planned community
University of the Philippines Diliman, the flagship university of the University of the Philippines System
University Police Department, on-campus police force at a university
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Now it’s your turn to suffer. 🙂
I’ve carried the burden long enough.
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Unproductive posted drivel, like half of my comments? 🙂
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I don’t know the answer yet, but the Russian calque (for lack of a better word) has A which means the U has the sound in ‘up’ not in ‘union or universal’.
Maybe the single sound clue was enough to make it clear…
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Yes, absolutely, it was the sound cue.
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Or this?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=UPD
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Som you nee to cut off a bit of a wor for the sak of spe. UPD mea upd, a new pos on an old top.
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oh…. I never would have thought of that in a million years. But then the russian should have been “АПT”?
Or maybe Russian transliteration from english is more morphophonemic than I’d thought….
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It’s Update. I’m glad I’m.not the only person who is confused.
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