Re: RARA-AVIS: How about:

Words from the Monastery (jackechs@erols.com)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 06:36:34 -0400 At 03:24 AM 6/16/98 -0500, Don Cannon wrote:

>Someone asked about a more specific term for abbreviations like ACLU
>and MLA. It's acronym, which is the word for words composed of the
>first letter of the parts of a phrase. I was surprised that Webster's
>9th Collegiate used snafu as an example.

Why? Situation Normal All Fucked Up ... it fits the def ... my favorite
(I'm a Defense Contractor) is BGPHES ... pronounced "Big Fees" ... I can't
remember them off the top of my head, but I tend to remember a lot of
acronyms in L.A. Confidential ... like "the QT" ...

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