another fake acronym

[Dave Wilton]

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> Subject: Re: another fake acronym
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> This one goes back much earlier than that-- it appeared in an alt.sex post
> from 1994:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.sex/msg/162a4b70246c0a45
>
> Another acronymic expansion is "Ship High in Transit," though that one
> only goes back to 1999 on the Usenet archive:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.aviation.rotorcraft/msg/7c
b4a4e92c713b15

I dealt with it in "Word Myths." I included the 1999 cite. I was unaware of
the 1994 one, which is somewhat different.

--Dave Wilton
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