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Subject:For Your Amusement: RAS Syndrome From:"Wilcox, Rose (ZB5646)" <Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- pinnaclewest -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:33:29 -0700
A post on ADS-L (American Dialect Society - List) mentioned a long-running
correspondence in the New Scientist about redundant acronym-noun
combinations,
which they've named RAS Syndrome (that is, Redundant Acronym Syndrome
Syndrome). An example found on Linguist List is also given -- HPSG grammar
(that is,
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar grammar).
Rose A. Wilcox
Project Office / Power Trading
Communication Specialist / Technical Writer
CHQ Phone: 602-250-3453
502 Phone: 602-250-1564
Pager: 602-420-4623
Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- PinnacleWest -dot- com
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