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FYI
- Initialism of for your information.
1948 June 14, “Don Burke, chief of Time Inc.'s Cairo bureau”, in Time:At the close of a recent cable describing the recovery of his censor-held photographs of the fighting in the Holy Land, Life photographer John Phillips added the casual postscript: "FYI, Burke narrowly escaped death outside Jerusalem a few days ago."
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- Although its usage long predates the internet and text messaging, FYI is now probably used most frequently in electronic communications.
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