I read with great interest the excellent article by Lubchenco and Bard (Pediatrics, 47: 831, 1971) "The Incidence of Hypoglycemia in Newborn Infants Classified by Birth Weight and Gestational Age." By contrast, I read the abstract which preceded it with a mixture of frustration, spleen, and vitriol, in approximately equal amounts. Anyone but a chronic neonatologist must surely be flummoxed by the profusion of uninterpreted alphabetical abbreviations that dot the textual landscape–in this instance, no less than four (SGA, ACA, LGA, IDM) in three short paragraphs.