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Re: Give me about 20 minutes to become familiar with each acronym

Etymological fallacies I can buy. "Decimate" is my favourite.

Merriam-Webster seems to accept that initialisms are considered acronyms these days, so fair enough, I'll try not to automatically consider people who misuse it as under-educated.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they converge "your" and "you're", "their", "they're" and "there", and you won't mind that will you?

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