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Bob Noel wrote:

Did you see the latest AOPA rag? It uses the term "initialism" for DME
and VOR etc. That's even worse then our disagreement over the term
acronym and abbreviation.

Afraid I missed that thread -- but just noticed that my electronic
American Heritage gives "WAC/Women's Army Corps" as an example of an
acronym, and "USMC/United States Marine Corps" as an example of an
abbreviation, with no cross-referencing between them. Weird!