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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!194.162.162.196!newsfeed.nacamar.de!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) 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: 4 Jun 1997 15:15:04 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5n40po$l7u@web.nmti.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5mvqtk$ml6$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <33942889.59D0@att.com> <33944644.FEF@uk.sun.com.please.remove.this.to.reply> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45696 comp.os.linux.misc:178674 comp.os.linux.x:63424 alt.os.linux:21871 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3495 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42346 gnu.misc.discuss:31627 comp.unix.solaris:108590 In article <33944644.FEF@uk.sun.com.please.remove.this.to.reply>, Tony Walton <tony.walton@UK.Sun.COM.PLEASE.REMOVE.THIS.TO.REPLY> wrote: > No. It is an abbreviation. What would be the point in drawing a > distinction between an acronym and an abbreviation if any abbrevation > were to be classed as an acronym? I've heard "Initialism" to distinguish unpronouncable acronyms. However, there are misc. abbrs. that aren't acronyms. Yrs, Pete. -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document