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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!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ge.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!not-for-mail From: Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it> 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: 09 Jun 1997 14:57:28 +0200 Organization: CNUCE-CNR, Via S.Maria 36, Pisa - Italy +39-50-593211 Lines: 8 Message-ID: <x4raecue6f.fsf@fly.cnuce.cnr.it> References: <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> <EAMxy9.EF4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <A01469D243A414B4.60EFD3C313DDF166.4A538EC778681837@library-proxy.airnews.net> <3396D1DD.6495@qanv.pbz> <3398849a.13740572@news.dircon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fly.cnuce.cnr.it X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45862 comp.os.linux.misc:179536 comp.os.linux.x:63885 alt.os.linux:22058 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3534 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42639 gnu.misc.discuss:31723 comp.unix.solaris:109053 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. Strange! My Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary (about 57 entries) has it!