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Before reading the other posts, all I could come up with was humming hmm hmm N G O hmm hmm N G O... Now I find the song is about "business-oriented international non-governmental organizations". No wonder they gave the poor dog an acronym.
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We ain't guessing. It's as common as FUBAR. Now if you want to guess, there's Nagoya, Japan - Komaki (Airport Code); Never Grow Old (Cranberries song); and National Gas Outlet for starters.
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> It's as common as FUBAR.
Yeah, but that *is an acronym. NGO is just an abbreviation. Or do some say 'En-go'?
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It's as common as FBI or CIA.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Right, it's just not acronymic.
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Go / NoGo are descriptions of terrain in military jargon.
Go means you can travel the area.
NoGo means an area you cannot or should not travel in because terrain conditions make it unpassable (don't drive tanks through bog or fields of landmines) or because it is off-limits (don't fly over Iran on your way to Iraq).
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Ahem, I said: "It's used a lot in the news." Must be my Californy accent. I did see your comment, thank you; but I was afraid that if I acknowledged it, everyone would think my question (which was NOT 'what does NGO stand for') had been answered, and the thread would then shut down.
Guess I've not been watching the right news shows. Thanks, all.
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> Go / NoGo are descriptions of terrain in military jargon.
Ah, roger, FF. Now I get what zmjezhd was getting at.... I' m still unsure what exactly Jackie means with the acronym 'NGO' though.
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NGO is as everyone said, "Non Governmental Organization."
This would include groups like WHO, the Red Cross, The Knights of Columbus - groups that give AID of some kind without direct backing of a government. Often the aid is direct - tsunami relief, e.g. Sometimes it's meant to help establish infrastructure - like schools or hospitals or election monitoring.
I'm not sure if there's any variaton in the interpretation of the term. I read it in the news and in reports internal to the company where I work. I only became aware of the abbreviation in the last year or two, but it's probably been around a lot longer and I only just became aware of it.
The acronym /not-acronym question is interesting. The way these things are used sometimes by the "in crowd" can be a little confusing to the spectator - at least to this spectator. It sounds a lot like "Engio." Some abbreviations just sort of naturally lend themselves to this kind of thing. They just sound like words.
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