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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rutgers.rutgers.edu!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!cbgw1.lucent.com!newshub.netnews.att.com!news From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 13:09:35 -0400 Organization: AT&T - ITS Production Services Lines: 23 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3392FE4F.1667@att.com> References: <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> <EAMxy9.EF4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> Reply-To: akirby@att.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.20.25.* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) To: mellis@dircon.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45634 comp.os.linux.misc:178180 comp.os.linux.x:63141 alt.os.linux:21783 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3467 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42049 gnu.misc.discuss:31569 comp.unix.solaris:108269 Mike Ellis wrote: <snip> > Sorry to spoil the fun but these are not acronyms. An acronym is an > abbreviation which can be pronounced as if it were a word. How on > earth does one pronounce tcsh ? Most TLAs (three letter acronyms) are > not TLAs at all. In fact TLA is not a TLA itself. Wrong. Acronyms are words created from the first letters of other words, such as: FBI,MRI,IBM,FDA,FAA,AT&T Some are pronouncable, like RADAR, but it's the exception. If what you say is correct, none of the words above would be acronyms. And they're certainly not abbreviations, so what are they? They're acronyms. -- --- Allen Kirby AT&T ITS Production Services akirby@att.com Alpharetta, GA.