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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
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: 9 Jun 1997 09:30:12 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <3398849a.13740572@news.dircon.co.uk>,
mellis@dircon.co.uk (Mike Ellis) writes:
> I'm not too lazy or proud to look it up in a dictionary, but my 13
> volume Oxford English Dictionary has no entry for acronym.
I'd send it back if I were you :)
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !