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Numeronym: According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) e
by adolph 5y ago
Numeronym:
According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
Agree that i18n cemented it in the letter count form (homonym form is older, like K9 for canine).
- mdp2021 5y ago('K9' is homophone for 'canine'. To be homonyms, two terms should have different meaning - if two terms share the same name and meaning, they are the same...)