T.I.P. acronym--1895

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:57 AM -0500 3/19/05, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:38:06 -0500, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>wrote:
>  >Well, there were some actual acronyms around before then in religious
>>contexts.  The oldest I know of is the famous "I-CH-TH-Y-S" for Jesus
>>Christ/fish, immortalized on bumpers to this day.  Then there are all
>>those Hebrew ones, KATZ, RAMBAM, TANACH, etc.
>
>Yes, as I mentioned further down in my post!
>
oopsy-daisy, my bad.  Ben even mentioned the same bumpers.  GMTA
again, obviously, with one of the great minds not even noticing what
the other one had written.

L