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Anaris

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Re: Acronyms
« Topic Start: November 22, 2012, 10:08:41 PM »
Please do separate acronyms—which, properly, are abbreviations you can pronounce, like AIDS, JAG, or RAF—from simple abbreviations.

The former date back pretty much all the way. The latter, so far as I know, are a relatively recent thing.
Timothy Collett

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