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BTW

prepositional phrase
Saybee tee DUB-uhl-yooUS/ˌbi ti ˈdʌbəlju/UK/ˌbiː tiː ˈdʌbəljuː/

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    prepositional phraseinitialism
    Initialism of by the way.

    BTW, did you ever hear back about the apartment?

    The team lunch got moved to Thursday, BTW.

    Note

    A shorthand that keeps the conjunctive job of by the way: it flags a remark that is not central to the topic at hand. It turns up as early as 1981, in harpo!ber's "Lion's Book" on the Usenet group fa.unix-wizards, set off from the aside with a dash. A comma does the same work, and the marker sits easily at either the start or the end of the remark.

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