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In article , Huge wrote:
On 2011-10-04, Mike Barnes wrote:
Bert Coules :
John Williamson wrote:

Too, also and as well. HTH

It does, thanks. Though the value of an acronym that requires five
letters to express the same meaning as a single three-letter word
rather escapes me.


That's outdone by "www", which has three times as many syllables as the
words it's abbreviating.


I pronounce it "dub-dub-dub".


"wibble" has a long pedigree and even fewer syllables.

Nick
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