metageek.livejournal.com ([identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] klwilliams 2008-02-25 03:22 pm (UTC)

Re: Reclaiming the word "acronym"

Oh, yeah. From the Jargon File entry for TLA:

In 1989, a random of the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin “What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90s?” Paul's straight-faced response: “There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.” (To be exact, there are 26^3 = 17,576.)
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