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Lt Cmdr Dame Ellen MacArthur
riotact : like a phoenix from the ashes Posted Feb 22, 2005
always a bore to resurrect a dead thread, but an interesting note about dame ellen; she was on tv here last night, and her french is excellent.
Lt Cmdr Dame Ellen MacArthur
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Feb 22, 2005
Have you ever come across the word /amoofl/? It is itself an acronym, standing as it does for /abbreviation made out of first letters/. It can be used to describe that particular class of abbreviations (including KBE, DBE, and BBC) for which no other satisfactory word exists.
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