Re: Acronyms Et Al.

To: "David J. Aronson" <dja2003 at hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: Acronyms Et Al.
From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:11:36 +0100
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"David J. Aronson" <dja2003 at hotpop.com> writes:

>  > I doubt that this distinction is helpful in our field.  Quite a
>  > few initialisms are brutally acronymed
>
> And nouns brutally verbed....

"acronymed" is blessed by the OED. 8-)

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