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Subject:	Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:26:34 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, Tom McDonald writes: > [...] So I guess the club could either be correctly written as "BAyLUG", > capping the "A" to include the "Area" in "Bay Area"; "BayLUG", as in proper > noun; or "baylug", as in lowercase standard url. Is it a always requirement of acronyms that they be written in all caps? It's interesting about the "y" thing! -- the only way to get BayLUG to be an actual acronym is to pull the "y" from "Bay", thus also pulling the "a" from "Bay" and skipping over the "A" from "Area". :) --Todd

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		Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
(...) But you see on their website that balug is a linux user group. Alan (24 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
(...) I think so, until they cross over into regular noun "worddom", cf. scuba, radar. Words like "diesel" or "ohm" are no longer capped when impersonally used. Much in the same way, I've noticed that many hyphenated terms gradually lose their (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
(...) I used to think Merriam Webster was "one smart woman". Now, I know that she employs others to do most of her thinking for her ;-) Wellllllll, okay. As long as it's a friendly nit pick :) I defer to superior wisdom and sit corrected. Of course (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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