>And someone tell them on ER that it takes less time to say 'gun shot wound' than it does to say 'gee-ess-double-u'
My mother had already complained years ago about the acronym, WWF, being much longer than "World Widelife Fund" (7 syllables instead of 4). (The organization was later renamed to "World-Wide Fund for Nature", maintaining the TLA).
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
