Unfortunately, it looks unedited, and anyone can post to it. Many TLAs meaning "Three Letter Acronym", for instance...
Cheers, RAH At 8:23 AM -0500 on 5/16/02, Tara Calishain wrote: > ** Stands4 In the Place Where You Live... > > .. now face north. Stands4 ( http://www.stands4.com/ ) is a > searchable subject index of abbreviations. > > There are several ways to get through this site. You can > browse by topic (categories include governmental, computer, > and medical), browse by first letter of abbreviation, and > search. > > Though at first glance there appear to be lots of > subcategories, maybe there should be more -- there are 520 > listings in the "Occupations & Positions" business > subcategory! Listings include the abbreviation, what it > stands for, and any additional information. Click on the > plus sign to the left of the entry to add the entry to your > list. (Registration is not required for this feature; maybe > they're using a cookie thing) > > According to the statistics section of this site, there are > over 94,000 entries here. Considering that I saw a category > with over 9000 entries, you're going to want to use the > search engine. Fortunately it's easy to use. Type in the > abbreviation and away you go. Unfortunately it's case- > sensitive; ceo finds nothing but CEO finds 44 results > (including "Certified Egoistic Organizer", "Children's > Education Opportunity", and "Chiropractic Elite > Organization," in addition to the more expected meanings.) -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
