On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:07:36PM +1100, Ian Manners wrote:
> A lot of acronym's have redundant bits added afterwards by those not
> in the industry that originally greated the acronym, and sometimes
> by those in the industry to overcome a possible conflict and thus
> it becomes common.
...or worse still, the 'backronym' or 'anacronyn':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
davidt
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