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From: rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock)
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Subject: Re: Acronym database
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Date: 3 Feb 91 18:42:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.090154.15487@odin.diku.dk> klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen) writes:
>>AAAAAA	- the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and
>              Asinine Acronyms
>
>Does this really exist? Someone once told me that it was Abominable
>Abbreviations and Agrevating (sp?) Acronyms, which is right?

A few years ago I designed a piece of hardware that I dubbed 'TINA', which
a fellow engineer claimed actually stood for 'This Is Not an Acronym' !!

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