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MongoTheGeek
macrumors 68040
Sonar = SOund Navigation And Ranging
Maser = Microwave yada yada yada
Lidar = LIght Detection And Ranging
siurpeeman
macrumors 603
johnee
macrumors 6502a
Hey! I've been trying to create some new process/patent/program at work and give it a name whose acronym is P.O.O.P. It needs to be computer/microprocessor related.
I would LOVE some suggestions! I think it would be so FUNNY to have everyone including senior management be forced to say it! 😀 😀 😀
I would LOVE some suggestions! I think it would be so FUNNY to have everyone including senior management be forced to say it! 😀 😀 😀
CanadaRAM
macrumors G5
"The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories says: "Around the year 1700, the slang verb cop entered English usage, meaning 'to get ahold of, catch, capture.' By 1844, cop showed up in print, and soon thereafter the -er suffix was added, and a policeman became a copper, one who cops or catches and arrests criminals. Copper first appeared in print in 1846, the use of cop as a short form copper occured in 1859.""
"To cop" may come Dutch kapen = "to steal"; Irish ceap = "Stop, catch, seize, control", or Old French dialect caper = "to take", from Latin
capere.
Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
"Cop (sl.) Catch; capture. XVIII. Of north. dial. origin; prob. variant of cap
arrest, seize (VVI) - OF. caper seize - L. capere (see Capture) Hence cop and
copper policeman, XIX. (Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, p. 213,
Oxford, 1978.)"
Legolamb
macrumors 6502a
Linguistically, youre right. It's a recent add-on. But as an acronym, its still my fav. 😉
Thomas Veil
macrumors 68030
I've noticed that any town whose name begins with "B" and has a fire department, has a problem.
"BFD" isn't exactly the attitude you want to see written on the back of a uniform when your house is burning down.
"BFD" isn't exactly the attitude you want to see written on the back of a uniform when your house is burning down.
CanadaRAM
macrumors G5
adk
macrumors 68000
I've always heard that "cop" is a derivative from the copper badges police officers used to wear.
ATM = Automatic Teller Machine.
What bugs me is when people say ATM Machine!
ATM Machine = automatic teller machine machine
a machine that makes ATMs.
What bugs me is when people say ATM Machine!
ATM Machine = automatic teller machine machine
a machine that makes ATMs.
bartelby
macrumors Core
siurpeeman
macrumors 603
cd/dvd disk, too. it doesn't bother me so much, though. i'm accepting of other people's mistakes. 😉
I'm sorry, everyone around me must be perfect at all times. If they slip up, they get a backhand to the face.
*eyes siurpeeman* 😉
and hey, y'all know QED DOESN'T stand for Quite Easily Demonstrated... I kept telling my Calculus teacher that. I got eyes rolled at me... hehehe. 😀
bartelby
macrumors Core
Macaddicttt
macrumors 6502a
mkrishnan
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What is the etymology? I love that word! 🙂 I always thought it was just an Italian loan word in English, though.
Speaking of ATM, there was a time during the Republican congress in the days of Pres. Clinton that one of the senators or reps used to have a speech on a regular basis in which he would decry research he felt was stupid, unnecessary, or wasting of government money (insert 🙄 ). There was one where he was going off on someone who was asking for a fair amount of money to "research ATMs." Someone had to politely explain to him that ATM also stands for "asynchronous transfer modes" and not just banking machines. 🙂