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Re: Tesla coiling terminology
At 07:39 PM 12/29/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>> This comes up periodically. There are tons more in the archives at
>> www.pupman-dot-com . Search for "acronyms". This will give you a start.
>>There are a lot of new people that could probably used a nice brushed up
>> list... - Terry >>
>>
>Hi Terry,
>You probably expected something like this. I'm glad to see that I have you at
>least putting the word ACRONYMS in quotation marks. I hope that a sharp guy
>like yourself has by now
>looked up the word in the dictionary to see what I am pestering you about.
>The list of abbreviations is nice but not one of those abbreviations comes
>close to passing the sniff test as an acronym. Please Terry, you know how
>important the correct usage of our technical vocabulary is to our very
>livelihood, the meaning of IS is no less important.
>
>Of course you are welcome to post this but I thought it would be best to post
>off-list and
>leave the call to you.
>
>Happy New Year,
>Ralph
Hi Ralph,
Acronym - A word formed from the first (or first few) letters of a series
of words. Like "Radar".
Abbreviations - A shortened form of a word or phrase like N.Y. for New York.
Ok, Ralph. I guess they are "abbreviations" then? :-))
Them Enjlish techers kept shoving me into the mth end pysices an
electronics (the one I can spell) corsees tring to keep mee out of they're
engish classs. Day said me was much btter off dere... :-)))
What is really sad is that I copied that post directly from the pupman
Archives. I think "I" am also the culprit for screwing it all up back then
too :-)))
Cheers,
Terry