Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms

[Richard Cox <richard () beijing spamhaus cn>]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:18:53 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:

> TLA - Three Letter Acronym (e.g. FBI, NSA)
> FLA - Four Letter Acronym (e.g. IEEE)

Er, no.  The correct term would be XTLA (Extended Three Letter Acronym).
Otherwise it would be confusing if FLA was a TLA but TLA was not a FLA!
Of course, XTLA *is* an XTLA.  QED.

RDGC
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