Introduces the kind of person the writer wants to meet. Mainly British.
| Type | Modern abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Stands for | Would like to meet |
| Earliest recorded use | 1994, in the Guardian, Oxford English Dictionary |
WLTM is the modern, compressed descendant of the nineteenth-century wishes to form the acquaintance of. It belongs to the same British lonely hearts shorthand as GSOH, and the Oxford English Dictionary's earliest evidence for it is from 1994, in the Guardian.
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