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There's something about three-letter words with an A in the middle that make people assume they're acronyms. HAM and MAC (as in, Macintosh) are often incorrectl
by LeoPanthera 2y ago
There's something about three-letter words with an A in the middle that make people assume they're acronyms. HAM and MAC (as in, Macintosh) are often incorrectly written that way. It's weird.
- verandaguy 2y agoMac might be a word, but MAC, MAC, and MAC are all acronyms, to say nothing of the cosmetics brand MAC (styled as M•A•C, though not M.A.C., and remains a word, not an acronym or initialism).
- inopinatus 2y agoMac is a valid abbreviation of the Macintosh, which is named indirectly after John McIntosh, a Canadian farmer and apple breeder of Scottish descent, who gave his name to the McIntosh Red cultivar. Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh was also born McIntosh but revised his family name after a spelling error at the Glasgow School of Art. The Mackintosh that you wear is similarly misnamed after Charles Macintosh (no relation), inventor of the modern waterproof raincoat. And so it goes.
- inopinatus 2y agoAn O appears to be a similar trigger. Our building manager persists in announcing the security tokens thus, as in, "Your new key FOB is ready.", and I feel real pain every time.
- adolph 2y agoJust imagine saluting them and responding, “Very well; that will be all for now, Lieutenant. At twelve o’hundred we will head outside the wire.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forward_operating_bases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forward_operating_base...
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- HPsquared 2y agoGotoBLAS always gets me. Named after the developer, Kazushige Goto.
- jodrellblank 2y agoThings unexpectedly named after people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725
- Avicebron 2y agoMedium Access Control (MAC) here in the protocol mines we use it pretty frequently
- cyberax 2y agoAlso Mandatory Access Control.
- msylvest 2y agoAnd Message Authentication Code
- dingensundso 2y agoAnd Macintosh Apple Comouter
- Scarblac 2y agoAlso ELO ratings for chess (named after Dr. Arpad Elo).
- patwolf 2y agoWhenever I say Elo out loud, it takes a lot of mental energy to not say E-L-O, as if I'm talking about the Electric Light Orchestra.
- gsck 2y agoLUA is the one that annoys me the most, its a word. Its moon in portugese
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- nedrylandJP 2y agoOr my boss letting us know there will be a TEAMS meeting.