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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
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To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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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.