Hang on, thats not even slightly right.
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checkers,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:52,
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Actually it's entirely right.
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fool_on_the_hill,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:56,
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It seems it is. I never knew that.
Does that means that almost all the entries in this competition should really be here, because thing like wwf and BBC aren't acronyms?
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checkers,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:59,
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Where's Doc G when you need him?
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gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:00,
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No
Because the specification of the challenge made it clear that they intended initialisms to be included (by the examples of BBC and CIA), even though they misused the word 'acronym'.
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fool_on_the_hill,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:01,
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^^^This.
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Vega31,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:25,
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actually, only about half
as it's not an abreviation for a word like st. for street or mr. for mister, it's the intials for a group of words.
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hanke murphy, I'm a mess,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:16,
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