Fwd: more astounding acronyms

[Michael Quinion]

Laurence Horn wrote

> More specifically, I've preserved this exchange from an on-line
> advice to the wordlorn column, 5 April 1999--could be Michael
> Quinion's WWW, but I didn't preserve the relevant info.

Yes, that's one of mine, though I don't do much advising of the
lovelorn. See

  http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dra1.htm

I elaborated on it for "Port Out, Starboard Home", but haven't
(yet) included the additional details in the Web site piece.


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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
E-mail: wordseditor at worldwidewords.org
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