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A '''TLA''' is a Three-Letter Abbreviation - a string of exactly three letters that means something to somebody. Other names for this sort of TLA include Three Letter Acronym (when the three letters can be pronounced as a word) and Three Letter Code.
Unfortunately, there are only 17,576 possible TLAs, and that includes all the three-letter words such as "the" (which sometimes leads to [[Fun with Acronyms]]). 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 ''[[
Thus, many pages on All The Tropes that are named after TLAs are disambiguation pages.
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