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#179499 - 10/08/08 10:04 PM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: zmjezhd]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	You're teasing right? No. I just never know which things I'm allowed vs. what others are. And I don't even know where to look for my user number. If you want me to change your post, I will (she said, wondering if he was asking for proof.)
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#179512 - 10/09/08 08:27 AM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: Jackie]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	If you want me to change your post No thanks. It's a part of the Great Google Word Hoard now. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#179535 - 10/09/08 10:14 PM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: zmjezhd]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Hey, a new acronym (just what we needed...): GGWH.
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#179539 - 10/10/08 12:47 AM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: Jackie]
The Pook old hand Registered: 02/20/08 Posts: 1067 Loc: Tasmania	Originally Posted By: Jackie Hey, a new acronym (just what we needed...): GGWH. Let me be the first of this bunch of super-pedants to point out that strictly speaking that is an initialism rather than an acronym.
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#179541 - 10/10/08 06:54 AM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: The Pook]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658	Originally Posted By: The Pook Originally Posted By: Jackie Hey, a new acronym (just what we needed...): GGWH. super-pedants ... that is an initialism rather than an acronym. What?! You can't pronounce ggwh?
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#179543 - 10/10/08 08:11 AM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: Faldage]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7185 Loc: Vermont	Originally Posted By: Faldage Originally Posted By: The Pook Originally Posted By: Jackie Hey, a new acronym (just what we needed...): GGWH. super-pedants ... that is an initialism rather than an acronym. What?! You can't pronounce ggwh? I want to hear Jackie say it so I can count the syllables. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#179547 - 10/10/08 09:14 AM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: Faldage]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	You can't pronounce ggwh? /ĝə'ɠẅx/ _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#179561 - 10/10/08 05:57 PM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: zmjezhd]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Come here, Pookie, and I might initial you, sir! ;-) eta: something like goog oo uh.
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#179563 - 10/10/08 06:43 PM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: The Pook]
latishya enthusiast Registered: 11/24/07 Posts: 390 Loc: कहीं &...	Originally Posted By: The Pook Originally Posted By: Jackie Hey, a new acronym (just what we needed...): GGWH. Let me be the first of this bunch of super-pedants to point out that strictly speaking that is an initialism rather than an acronym. im sure youre right although it looks like a perfectly respectable welsh word and looks like it would probably be at home as a central consonant cluster in Irish, where it would no doubt be pronounced "mary". i googled initialism and found a recent discussion at blog called languagehat.
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#179564 - 10/10/08 07:29 PM Re: circumflexual invidia [Re: latishya]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass	an aside to those "in the know" (or not).. that 'hat' link contains many comments from Stuart, who we knew as sjmaxq, and if you follow his link you get the Where Can I Look It Up? page.
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