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   From: hadrainc@earthlink.net   
      
   On 29 Oct 2004 04:23:41 GMT, tla@surly.org (Mark Bradford) wrote:   
      
   >PS: Strictly speaking, most of these are "initialisms" or "abbreviations"   
   >rather than "acronyms"; pedantically, it's only an "acronym" if you make a   
   >word out of it, like "laser" or "radar." In practice, though, everybody   
   >calls 'em acronyms.   
      
   Let's not quibble.  You omitted - `Astros' or `Stros' -the Houston   
   Texas National League Baseball Team.   
   Questionable: Astrodome - Harris County Sports Stadium.   
   NASA 1 : street on which JSC is located.   
      
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