Incidentally, the worst abbreviation here that I can think of is "PAM", as when people are discussing the treatment of snake mites. Just so you know, that's NOT the oily cooking spray they're talking about, & I fear that some have actually tried that on their poor snakes. "PAM" is short for a pesticide product to kill mites called "Provent-A-Mite".
That one really got me wondering for a while, because who would spray silicone on their poor snake?