BTW

Digital "oh, also"

BTW is the emphatic or sentence-initial form of the abbreviation for "by the way," introducing an aside or afterthought in casual writing: BTW, I forgot to mention the meeting got moved.

Common in texts, emails, and social media. (Lowercase btw is more common in mid-sentence use.)

abbreviation

initialism

Spelled-out letter shortening

  • acronymWord made from initials
  • shorthandAbbreviated writing system
  • FYIInformational shorthand notation

ASAP · LOL · OMG · BRB · IDK · NVM · IMO · FWIW · SMH · IRL

digression

incidentally

Introducing a tangent

sidenote · addendum · interjection · segue

texting

SMS

Mobile text protocol

  • messageTransmitted communication
  • chatInformal verbal exchange
  • emojiDigital pictograph for messaging

autocorrect · smartphone · notification · group chat · thread · typing · send · reply · IM · iMessage

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formality of communication

BTWfurthermore

Word adding more points

moreover · incidentally · parenthetically · in addition · additionally

relevance/centrality of information

BTWmost importantly

Emphasizing top priority

crucially · fundamentally · above all · importantly · essentially

Family

by the way

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G