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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!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!news1.mpcs.com!news.radio.cz!feeder.chicago.cic.net!newsxfer.nether.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!stress.noc.demon.net!hdm From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell) 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: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 08:42:12 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Message-ID: <slrn5pi7n4.44f.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> 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> <33990060.52BFA1D7@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: hdm@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: stress.noc.demon.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: stress.noc.demon.net [195.11.55.5] X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Lines: 18 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45805 comp.os.linux.misc:179279 comp.os.linux.x:63731 alt.os.linux:21973 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3523 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42556 gnu.misc.discuss:31687 comp.unix.solaris:108920 Earlier, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > 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. And thos in law breaking tend to call them "bastards". ;-) -Dom -- This posting is not an official communication of Demon Internet Ltd., unless otherwise stated. ---- Work: hdm@demon.net ---- Play: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk ---- Feet on the ground, mind in the stratosphere - P.L.