Re: NAC - American style [LONG]

A stack of paper on my desk right now - which I am making a serious
effort
to ignore - is all about VHDL, which is an abbreviation for VHSIC
Hardware
Description Language. VHSIC itself is an abbreviation for Very High
Speed
Integrated Circuit.

Personally I prefer recursive acronyms like (for example):
The GNU Hurd project is named with a mutually-recursive acronym: "Hurd"
stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons," and "Hird" stands for "Hurd
of
Interfaces Representing Depth."
or the classic GNU, which stands for "GNU's Not Unix!"

Have a good life!

on 05.1.7 6:01 AM, Flak Magnet (Tim) wrote:

> I thought it was customary to use the full acronym instead of just the
first
> letter of it when it's being used in another acronym.

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