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And this...... (URL) Sandlin <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:B6C688E9.E2EA%s...ink.com... (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nope. Do tell. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: All your base are belong to us
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(...) Frank (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: NOT the Queen's English
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(...) I think they get it from across the pond. They just can't bring themselves to go whole hog, and stand on queue. Steve (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Acronyms (Was Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) Oops, I should clarify that Rolls Royce is both the singular and the plural form. Maggie C. (who has once again sacrificed clarity for the sake of brevity) Oh yes, and I shall henceforth use AFOL as the plural of AFOL since your argument that (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Acronyms (Was Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) ACRONYM: Abbreviation by CROpping Names that Yield Meaning (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) As opposed to a certain really ominous subject that's inevitably christened "acrostic." Dave! (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Acronyms (Was Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) ACRONYM: A contrived reduction of nomenclature yielding mnemonics.... (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Acronyms (Was Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) Not a "real" word, but a word nonetheless, as opposed to a string of distinct letters. AFOL, if pronounced as a word ("I'm an AFOL") rather than spelled out ("I'm an A-F-O-L"), is an acronym by that definition. The convention was to say "WAC" (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Acronyms (Was Re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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(...) "radar" wasn't a word until the technology was invented. So does that mean it isn't an acronym? This is what Dictionary.com has to say about it: ----- ac·ro·nym (kr-nm) n. A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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