Frequency pair

I can say WAC---wack , but I can't pronounce usmuck.



"AES" wrote in message
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| In article
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| Bob Noel wrote:
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| 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!

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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Already looked up "word" - the definitions were not useful to the
discussion.

Not useful? Your dictionary uses the word "word" to define "acronym", and
yet you did not find the definition of "word" in that same dictionary to be
helpful in understanding the actual meaning of the word "acronym"? Or did
you mean by "not useful" simply that your dictionary's definition of "word"
didn't help support your incorrect understanding of "acronym"?

"initalism" isn't in my dictionary.

I don't think "initalism" is a word. As far as "initialism" goes, here's
one dictionary's definition for you:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=initialism

Hope that helps. You might want to think about getting a new dictionary.

Pete

"Jim Macklin" wrote

I can say WAC---wack , but I can't pronounce usmuck.

Sure you can! US -(like all of the people put together) + MUCK -(the stuff
the field at OSH turns to, after a hard rain!)
g
--
Jim in NC

Just CORPS core
"Morgans" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
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| I can say WAC---wack , but I can't pronounce usmuck.
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| Sure you can! US -(like all of the people put together) +
MUCK -(the stuff
| the field at OSH turns to, after a hard rain!)
| g
| --
| Jim in NC
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