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Subject:RE: Weird words From:"tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com" <tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com> To:Yvettedenoga -at- crimsonlogic -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:49:21 -0400 (EDT)
Those are funny, You should enter those words at Urban Word of the Day for a laugh.
There are too many invented words to list in the Oil and Gas industry. Not to mention acronyms.
At my first job, I came across the acronym, POOH at the end of several paragraphs. I asked around and most engineers just accepted the term but weren't sure what it meant.
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