recoing

[James Harbeck]

>In regard to clippings, the next thing I was going to note is that
>on some college campuses, the discipline (and department) of
>ECONOMICS is colloquially referred to as "eco," on other campuses as
>"econ." I wonder if that difference is partly influenced by whether
>the college's official course prefix comprises three letters or four.

Like Lin and Ling, among others...

WRT phys ed, I remember my phys ed teacher writing on the blackboard
on probably the first day of classes "FIZED". This was in the 1970s,
in an elementary school in southern Alberta.

James Harbeck.

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