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Subject:Re: QA Questions From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:00:01 -0700
> Bergen, Jane [SMTP:janeb -at- ANSWERSOFT -dot- COM] wrote:
>>QA stands for Quality Assurance. I've never seen the "&" or
"and" used
> between QA.<<
>
I'd never seen it written Q&A before either, but I've sometimes
heard it spoken as "Q and A". Possibly, in that regard, the A stands for
"acceptance" rather than "assurance".
