Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Francesco Potorti`
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 00:00

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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!

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From: Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/06/09
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