[Magdalen] TECnical question

[Charles Wohlers]

The previous acronym was ECUSA - Episcopal Church in the USofA, but folks 
didn't like that as the Episcopal Church (HQ'd in the US) also includes a 
number of other countries - Haiti, Colombia, Taiwan, etc. So TEC is the 
politically correct acronym these days.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com


-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Guthrie
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 8:43 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] TECnical question


From: Scott Knitter

>I don't like the proliferation of acronyms in general, especially when one
>of the letters stands for "The." I suppose TEC is a handy abbreviation, but
>shouldn't it really be "the EC" if we must have an abbreviation? Or maybe
i>t's TEC over against Scotland's SEC?

I think it's better than the historic acronym -- PE or PEC as in "Protestant
Episcopal Church." So there's certainly historical precedent.  And the 
acronym
is rarely -- if ever -- used by non TEC people  or in news items or other
communications meant for general public consumption.

I recall some bitter discussions over the relevance of EC vs PEC or PE back 
on
anglican#american.edu twenty years ago, but everyone seemed to take to 
TEC -- a
reasonable and descriptive compromise.

Cheers,
Jim