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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!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> 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: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 23:32:00 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <33990060.52BFA1D7@FreeBSD.org> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <33776BE4.6883@ford.com> <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> <EAMxy9.EF4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> <3392FE4F.1667@att.com> <5mvqtk$ml6$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5n6oqu$br@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5nark0$3pt$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45802 comp.os.linux.misc:179268 comp.os.linux.x:63722 alt.os.linux:21969 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3522 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42554 gnu.misc.discuss:31686 comp.unix.solaris:108911 Annelise Anderson wrote: > Nothing is wrong with pronouncing FBI as ef-bee-eye. Is it a word? Nothing really wrong, except that those in law enforcement tend to pronounce it "the feeb", and I've always felt this pronounciation to be superior on the grounds of both uniquely identifying the agency in question and signifying its degree of competence, all combined into one handy term. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.