Abbreviations

You didn't. I'm not. hth

You're still going on about Bear, and The Clique, and The Goils, and
how unfair it is that people are nasty to you.

 

I'm going to k/f him.

 

SyncMaster 172v?

 

Warning, warning, irony-o-meter overload!

 

If he is universally disliked he ain't got many other places to go, has he?

"Everybody's got to be somewhere" (copyright Eccles).

 

no, it's an older model than that - bought about 2 years ago.

 

Gomi.

 

Nicely said. And abbreviation has its own nice and tidy pigeon hole where we
can put st. for street, rd. for road and Hudds. for Huddersfield and the
like.

Anyway, I'd pronounce it "Ibbum".

 

I often use my sun branded 21" sony trinitron when I'm running windows
under linux. Nice screen.

 

But we do. They are both abbreviations. It's just that RoSPA is an
abbreviation that can be pronounced following the spelling conventions
of English, a sub-set of "abbreviation" for which the word "acronym" was
coined quite recently.

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Yamaha XJ900F & Watsonian Monaco, the comfortable one

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I have no problem calling Mr. etc abbreviations. They are just another
sub-set of the wide family of lexical strings rolled up under the
general definition of "abbreviation".

But "acronym" was specifically coined to represent pronounceable
abbreviations. Look it up in OED.

Wouldn't we all

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Look up /synonym/ in the OED.

If you say an Ford is any kind of car, driveable or not,
then you are simply taking Ford and car as synonyms.

Now do you see the flaw in your logic?
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No. Please elucidate.

Certainly I can *say* "a Ford is any kind of car" if I wanted to, but at
the present state of world trade it is patently untrue. If Ford were to
take over the world motor industry then it might well ultimately become
generally accepted, and they would indeed be synonyms. Take for
instance "Biro", which for many people in the UK is synonymous with
"ball point pen".

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For the sake of everyone else I'm going to join you.

 

Is this an Acronym or an abbreviation?

 

have you left your false teeth out again, grandad?

 

Scooters now! This guy loves arguments

 

darsy wrote

Milk from the devils teat.

Horrible stuff.

P.

 

LOL. Excellent.

I remember you being particularly shit faced at one *OSM (the one
Windy was at) and you were spectacularly fecking rude.

You seem to have mellowed the last couple of times i've met you tho'
[1]

Cheers,

Paul.

[1] Which is a shame ;-)

 

You keep saying that, but you haven't posted the *exact* and full
definition. I haven't either, but - as I've explained - that's
because the login is on my PC which is currently on a boat in the
middle of the Gulf.

 

Heh. philosophy of language: A bit like going to a restaurant, and eating the
menu.