recoing

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/27/2007 08:40 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:
>I sent that message before I was finished with it; sorry! (I was
>busy pondering the spelling of "boundary" when the message
>accidentally took wing. Also, I realize that the word "recon"
>doesn't exactly keep the vowel.)
>
>In regard to clippings, the next thing I was going to note is that
>on some college campuses, the discipline (and department) of
>ECONOMICS is colloquially referred to as "eco," on other campuses as
>"econ." I wonder if that difference is partly influenced by whether
>the college's official course prefix comprises three letters or four.

There is (was?) also "SoSci" and "SocSci", which, I vaguely remember
from the mid-50s circa Boston, had some class distinction -- if you
said one, you were going to the better school than those who said the other.

Joel

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