From: brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Acronym database
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.182703.18425@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 18:27:03 GMT

In article <1991Jan29.193720.12383@cs.utk.edu> de5@ornl.gov writes:

>Public Domain Acronym/Abbreviation Database...


This is quite reminiscent of a library reference book called the Gale
Dictionary of Abbreviations (or something like that).  Gale Research is
a company that creates publications by entering lists of things into a
database and then publishing various sortings as books.

Now the dictionary of abbreviations comes in two volumes.  One is
like the list posted, listing in abbreviation order.  The other
volume--and libraries really buy this--lists things by name and tells
you what the abbreviation is.  Like you would look up International
Business Machines to find that its abbreviation is "IBM".  Oh.


Joe Brennan