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Article #4295Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
From: Jordan K. Hubbard
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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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. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10eb3b,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid10eb3b,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1012a6,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1012a6,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fa705,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidfa705,public X-Google-Thread: faa64,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 11035d,3d362ec564ebdcba X-Google-Attributes: gid11035d,public From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 1997/06/06 Message-ID: <33990060.52BFA1D7@FreeBSD.org> X-Deja-AN: 246710157 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> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM 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