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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news1.mpcs.com!zephyr.texoma.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news-zh.switch.ch!ubnnews.unisource.ch!newssrv.ita.tip.net!venere.inet.it!cusun!vodka.sublink.ORG!server-b.cs.interbusiness.it!usenet From: mirri@fol.it (Luca Mirri) 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, 14 Jun 1997 08:06:50 GMT Organization: Centro Servizi Interbusiness Lines: 11 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <33a2510a.2692726@news.interbusiness.it> References: <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> <EAMxy9.EF4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <A01469D243A414B4.60EFD3C313DDF166.4A538EC778681837@library-proxy.airnews.net> <3396D1DD.6495@qanv.pbz> <3398849a.13740572@news.dircon.co.uk> <339CA4A4.2A1A9E65@ripco.com> <r7vi3kk68t.fsf@masala.cygnus.co.uk> <5nnlvs$lc1$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> <r7pvtrjxzj.fsf@masala.cygnus.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.243.173.66 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:46530 comp.os.linux.misc:182204 comp.os.linux.x:65144 alt.os.linux:22713 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3611 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43543 gnu.misc.discuss:31955 comp.unix.solaris:110839 rosalia@cygnus.co.uk ha scritto: >In greek acros is the peak, not the beginning, and I don't find the >connection too plausible unless more greek philological facts are >produced. In greek akros also means "extreme" or "extremity" Acronym is from akros 'onoma (-atos) and means "extremity of the name". Luca Mirri