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Re: Nomenclature Semantics
From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2015 Oct 28, 16:56 -0700
From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2015 Oct 28, 16:56 -0700
I have wondered about this as well...and speculated that we may inherit acronyms from French. Maybe St. Hilaire came up with all these, and they make perfect sense in French. We keep the acronyms in English, where they make less sense.