linguist like to argue with (or criticize) non-linguists, too

[Duane Campbell]

My daughter spent over a year at DLI in Monterrey and we spend a month
out there with her, and I never heard it called anything but DLI.

My wife and I spent several years in Europe. I was first military and
then a DOD (Dee-oh-dee) civilian. She taught at the military school,
which was a Dee-oh-dee school. I never heard "dohd" school. This was in
the late 60s and early 70s.

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