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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But you see on their website that balug is a linux user group. Alan (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'll never forget the day my Intro Calc prof was talking about capitalization and adjectives. He said, "The highest recognition -- the highest honor -- we can get as mathemeticians is a hundred years after we die, to have our name written in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Neither diesel nor ohm are acronyms. Both are words formed from the inventor's or discoverer's name. So while an interesting point, it's not germane. (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Good thing I already have my shillelagh(1) out... *whap!* Bad Pun!! :) Jeff [FUPs to .o-t.pun] 1 - check offtopic.fun (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Ouch, I didn't even see that till you pointed it out. Am I good or what? (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) gradually (...) Thanks for keeping us germane, jackson.. -Tom McD. when replying, spamcakes make excellent wheel blocks. (rerun due to illness) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Very sly, waiting until I put my shillelagh away to pull out the pun... But that won't save you, because I have my wiffle bat! *fwap!* :) Oh, and for the record, that was a real groaner... Jeff (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) I'll go for "or what", Regis. And yes, that is my final answer. :) Jeff (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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