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I guess this illustrates - once again - the hazards of using acronyms: they can be expanded in more ways than one.
On a board I frequent one of the posters used the acronym, YMMV. It was for, "Your mileage may vary" indicating that the software in question might or might not run as well on the questioners machine. The questioner asked for clarification as he thought perhaps YMMV meant, "You make me vomit"
Now, in this case I think he was just being funny but it does illustrate how people can get so used to using acronyms at work or in a field they are familiar with that they start to mistake them for real words.
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