[Ads-l] convo 'conversation'

[Marc Sacks]

I've also seen "doco" for "documentation" from back when I worked as a tech
writer (about 30 years ago).

Marc Sacks

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
wrote:

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> > On Jun 22, 2016, at 6:50 AM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>
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> > I've heard this for several years; I wonder if it's influenced by
> "combo"=
>  for "combination".
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> > On 6/20/2016 10:22 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >> CNN chyron:
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> >> FBI To Release Killer's Convo With Cops
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> it's specifically AU/NZ slang.  with antipodal -o.
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