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NSAIDs

(Non steroidal anti inflamitory drugs)

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Acronyms
Words which are formed from the initial letters of other words.
Ancronym

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idiomatic

(disregarding the plural 's' in the above post)

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Erminia - of course. :lol:

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No worries but E....ea.

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(nah, creative folks will find a way)

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26 Oct 2009, 8:33 pm

The last two letters were ng. How do you get nighthawk out of that?

(ing = awk)

That would be like me using waking when I should really be using:

wKiosk

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Fullscreen web browser designed for Internet Kiosks and web applications.
www.app4mac.com/wkioskbrowser.html

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