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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Searching for a word
Message-ID: <1647@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 13:22:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 13:22:49 1986
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Reply-To: mmar@sphinx.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Keywords: acronym
Summary: 



Yes, protonym is a very nice term.
There's still a gap in the terminology, though, for what the original
poster called 'expansion' but wanted something nicer.  It would apply
equally to acronyms, abbreviations, and hybrids (like CINCPAC etc) --
so that with equal appropriateness you could ask for the ____ of IBM
and also the ____ of 'laser'.
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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