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From: brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Acronym database
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.182703.18425@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 18:27:03 GMT
In article <1991Jan29.193720.12383@cs.utk.edu> de5@ornl.gov writes:
>Public Domain Acronym/Abbreviation Database...
This is quite reminiscent of a library reference book called the Gale
Dictionary of Abbreviations (or something like that). Gale Research is
a company that creates publications by entering lists of things into a
database and then publishing various sortings as books.
Now the dictionary of abbreviations comes in two volumes. One is
like the list posted, listing in abbreviation order. The other
volume--and libraries really buy this--lists things by name and tells
you what the abbreviation is. Like you would look up International
Business Machines to find that its abbreviation is "IBM". Oh.
Joe Brennan