Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!husc6!frooz!cfa250!mcdowell
From: mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Program-related acronyms
Message-ID: <1654@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 89 13:39:07 GMT
References: <1173@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Lines: 13

From article <1173@aipna.ed.ac.uk>, by rjc@dee.uk.ac.ed (Richard Caley):
>>CDR	- CommanDeR
>>PLT	- PiLoT
> Do they use these? How? do they pronounce them as words ( `cuddr' and
> `plut' or something ) - if not they take more time to say than the
> complete word.

My impression is that, at least originally, they were used in
written documents (I guess most acronyms start that way, I'm much
lazier about writing something than I am about saying it). They probably
started saying CDR in real speech just to be cute.

- Jonathan McDowell