# Add \<abbr\> tags to words in posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-abbr-tags-to-words-in-posts/88394>\
**Category:** Theme component\
**Created:** [May 24, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-abbr-tags-to-words-in-posts/88394 "2018-05-24T18:03:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-abbr-tags-to-words-in-posts/88394/11 "2018-08-14T08:24:02Z")

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Here is another idea for refinement:

Let’s say on my forum, AA commonly stands for Alcoholic Anonymous and so we have a the abbrify theme component set up to explain AA as Alcoholics Anonymous. Now let’s say John writes a post mentioning the Automobile Association as AA. If he notices that the explanation for the abbreviation is wrong, he might want to stop discourse from abbrifying AA in his post. Or perhaps he doesn’t notice the problem but a staff member does but doesn’t know what AA stands for, only that it’s obviously not Alcoholics Anonymous.

Is there perhaps an easy solution to stop a word from being abbrified on a per post basis (except for using a different word or abbreviation, of course)? Perhaps such an escape mechanism could also be useful for the [linkify theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linkify-words-in-post/82193)?

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