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In a search for a good self-describing taxonomic category for words like
K9, I'd settle for alphanumeronym (or alphameronym, by analogy to the
convention of reducing 'alphanumeric' to 'alphameric').
A plain ol' numeronym ought to be numeric without alphabetic content, IMHO.
Example: If you know restaurant work, you might know '86' as the
designation for a dish you've run out of. Someone in the kitchen is
always calling out "86 the prime rib" or some such. I'd let that be
called a numeronym because '86' is all numeric. It has no alphabetic
content.
Then there's the ironic homophonic aspect of K9. I dunno but I really
want this kind of text to stay on license plates and military
reservations. St-a-a-a-y. Stay.
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