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To: potlatch

To reverse things, it would be interesting to find out how many people don’t know that words like “Laser”, “Radar” and “Sonar” are actually acronyms.


51 posted on 03/04/2014 3:01:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Well, I’ll admit that I had forgotten that myself. We get so used to using them because they sound like ‘words’.


54 posted on 03/04/2014 3:09:49 PM PST by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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