[Magdalen] Acronyms and initialisms (was TECnical question)

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Mon May 11 00:42:38 UTC 2015


Chicago's Lake Shore Drive has a fine initialism, especially when they
close part of Clark Street and put up those orange gasoline-powered message
boards:

CLARK ST
CLOSED -
USE LSD


On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> Well -- no acronym involved but I enjoyed thinking of the concept of Mary
> Queen of Angels Hospital and Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital merging --
> which they did in the 1980s,and was generally known as Queen of Angels
> Presbyterian Hospital.
>
> Then there are the possibilities of a really really unfortunate acronym if
> Sacred Heart, Incarnation and Trinity parishes merged.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA


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