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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Searching for a word
Message-ID: <514@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 14:54:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 14:54:44 1986
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In article <1647@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> mmar@sphinx.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) writes:
>
>
>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'.
>-- 
>
>            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
>               ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar

	Derivation?


	--MKR