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Berk/Devlin wrote:
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> Sorry to resuscitate this old topic, but I found a great site for acronyms
> and many other kinds of jargon.
>
> For example, they define the word:
>
> Anacronym -- An acronym so old that no one knows what it stands for
> anymore. Common examples include ASCII, NKVD, SPQR.
I know two out of three, and what the NKVD was though not the actual words.
Am I getting old? Or am I just weird? Or is this the sort of thing many tech
writers, having an interest in words, would know? All of the above?
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