Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Allen Kirby
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 00:00

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Ok, so apparently an abbreviation can come from multiple words, so
FBI and MRI are also abbreviations, but that doesn't mean they
aren't acronyms.  An acronym is a specialized type of abbreviation,
using only the first letters of each word.  FBI and MRI are both words,
according to the Merriam Webster definition of
'word'(http://www.m-w.com):

any segment of written or printed discourse ordinarily appearing between
spaces or between a space and a punctuation mark 





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From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/06/03
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