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> >When I was working for IBM this summer, there was a program on the
> >system which would translate acronyms for you.  There were thousands.
> >No one likes acronyms like IBM.  
> 
> actually, NASA probably has more.  any good ones from you NASA folks?
From the discard table at a local library I found a paperbound volume
entitled  "New Acronyms, Initialisms, & Abbreviations 1982".
It has two hundred pages, two column, ~ 60 lines/column.
It's volume 2: They only publish the new ones every year.
And it doesn't really claim to cover Computers or Engineering.

I didn't have the heart to find the Complete dictionary from the
previous year, nor volume 3: REVERSE Acronyms....
	(Gee, I think I'll try to figure those out on the fly...)

If anyone is interested, these fine books come from Gale Research Co.,
Book Tower, Detroit, MI 48226.
Or you can have mine: send SASE.

Rik Smoody