ufo, etc.

[Jonathan Lighter]

The USAF evidently also used the official acronym "UFOB" for a time. Apparently it postdated the coinage of "UFO."

The Air Force presumably felt that "UFO" had become too popular a term and needed to be replaced by new jargon.

Here is an official document from 1954 that employs "UFOB" :

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/afr200-2.htm

JL

"Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
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By free association: here is a little spelling error which really and truly
appeared repeatedly in the French-language press around 1970 (although this
example is copied from the Web):

<celle-ci en revint à la conclusion initiale: les U.F.O. étaient des engins
interplanétaires. D'où nouvelle contre-attaque des opposants avec la
création, en 1967, du comité Condom.>>

I don't know whether there's any significance to this. Does it qualify as
an eggcorn? (^_^)

-- Doug Wilson


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