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1 posted on 10/08/2014 6:10:47 AM PDT by 1raider1
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What about UK?


35 posted on 10/08/2014 6:53:49 AM PDT by Exit148
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One is an anagram, the other is just initials.


36 posted on 10/08/2014 6:55:59 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Why do people drive on a parkway but park on a driveway?

I am so confused...


38 posted on 10/08/2014 7:04:56 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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Because of fish riding bicycles on the cop car in the WalMart bus zone independently.


39 posted on 10/08/2014 7:08:15 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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For that matter, why do so many people refer to this year as “two thousand fourteen”, when it should be “twenty fourteen”. Nobody referred to 1999 as “one thousand nine hundred & ninety nine”.


41 posted on 10/08/2014 7:17:48 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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One is an acronym and one is an abbreviation.


45 posted on 10/08/2014 7:32:38 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Any thoughts?

Yes. I wonder how people tend to pronounce the acronym for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

47 posted on 10/08/2014 7:39:58 AM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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Why not pronounce I.S.I.S as “is is” in honor of Slick Willy Clinton?


50 posted on 10/08/2014 7:45:32 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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I thought about “radar” and then dismissed your entire premise for this silliness.


51 posted on 10/08/2014 7:49:16 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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Because there has been an “ISIS” since Egyptian times.

And because USA,pronounced, sounds stupid.


57 posted on 10/08/2014 9:44:18 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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Why do they say GSW on TV, when it’s easier to say gun shot wound?


62 posted on 10/08/2014 10:32:53 AM PDT by Darth Reardon (Is it any wonder I'm not the president?)
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My high school choir director, back in the day, said he took a chorus to Austria, I think, for an international competition. In the award ceremony, they all waited and looked around until they realized that they had won. They were confused because the announcer kept saying the winner was “oooosah”, not u.s.a.


63 posted on 10/08/2014 1:11:46 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Because isis is a word, and oosa sounds silly.

We also used to say U S S R, rather than usser ... and U K rather than uck, and P R C rather than prick ....

we say F B I, but pronounce nasa.


67 posted on 10/08/2014 1:37:39 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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Because Isis is an actual word and Oosah is not.


70 posted on 10/08/2014 1:43:08 PM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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Because we started pronouncing it U-S-A many years before we got into this damnable habit of giving everything an acronym that the subject sound innocuous, e.g., The JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act.


71 posted on 10/08/2014 8:26:41 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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