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On 18/12/2008, at 7:00 AM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
No wonder they are 3 letters long - look at Guy's name!
Ha! Anything more than 3 characters is obviously too much. Wonder
what his middle name is?
But there are too many vowels there.
Vowels are kept when removing them would leave too few characters to
make any sense e.g., DTAARA.
Historical, possibly apocryphal, story goes that 3 character
abbreviations are used because they are less likely to result in
potentially offensive words--example supplied was Create Application
gives CRAP. In the IBM of the 70's that would have been an offensive
word. In this part of the world it's just a common four-letter word
(like love and hate).
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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