Category:TLA

A TLA is a Three-Letter Abbreviation - a string of exactly three letters that means something to somebody.

Unfortunately, there are only 17,576 possible TLAs, and that includes all the three-letter words such as "the". By now, most of them mean more than one thing, and what comes to mind when you think of a TLA isn't necessarily what comes to somebody else's mind. (For example, there are hundreds if not thousands of people who hear "BFG" and don't immediately think of Roald Dahl's book.)

Thus, many pages on All The Tropes that are named after TLAs are disambiguation pages.

Since "TLA" is itself a TLA (complete with multiple meanings), this is a Self-Demonstrating Article ... and somewhat recursive.