Ben's rando, Virginia's retronyms (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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>
> Several of these non-pejorative Aussie-style truncations + "-o" (let's
> call them "truncos") are getting popular in business circles. Along
> with "convo", there's "preso" for "presentation", "reco" for
> "recommendation", and "illo" for "illustration". More discussion in
> the comments here:
>
> http://mr-verb.blogspot.com/2007/02/o-nouns-in-english.html
>
> --bgz
>


"Illo" goes back to at least 1945 in SF-fanspeak (see Prucher, _Brave
New Words_).
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