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At 14:27 -0400 9/30/01, John S. Denker wrote:
And I could ask why "abbreviation" is such a long word (in fact, most
It is amusing to think of other words that exemplify themselves. Examples
include:
-- noun
-- newspeak
-- pentasyllabic
of the time it is abbreviated), but if we want to get into a
protracted discussion of the inconsistencies of the English language,
we're probably going to have to change the name of this list, because
that is all we'll have time to talk about.
Hugh
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