NSAID

[Arnold Zwicky]

a considerably expanded version of my ADS-L posting on NSAID has now
been posted on my blog:

   http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/hybrid-initial-letter-abbreviations/

(and, yes, i'm aware that the expression mostly occurs in "NSAIDs" --
but that's just the regular plural of NSAID (that last s is not part
of an initialism.)

arnold

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