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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MarianLH: [QB] [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: It's not like people have forgotten that "eta" stands for something, and that has to have been around for at least a century. [/qb][/QUOTE]That's hardly a fair counterexample. "ETA" is still [i]used[/i] as an acronym. People say "ee tee ay," not "eh-ta." At least, not that I've ever heard. Besides, even if most people remember it's an acronym, or even if it [i]wasn't[/i] an acronym, that doesn't mean the word "impulse" couldn't have evolved from something specific to a generic term for sublight propulsion, which was my main point. Marian PS: for many years I didn't know that "snafu" was an acronym. Makes me wonder where "LoL" will be a century from now. :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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