reverse acronyming/nato

[Donald M. Lance]

NATO -- the one you wag to indicate a negative response.
DMLance

"A. Maberry" wrote:

> North Atlantic Treaty Organization
>
> allen
> maberry at u.washington.edu
>
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Paul M. Johnson wrote:
>
> > NATO is a word, what does it mean?
> >
> > P2052 at AOL.COM wrote:
> > >
> > > I think it's called an acronym when it spells a word (e.g., NATO) and
> > > initialism when it doesn't (FBI).
> > >                          pat
> >