On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 17:29 +0000, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > On 4 November 2014 12:55, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > ALDI, LIDL, ASDA and SPAR are all abbreviations of their full names, in > > the same way as NATO, AIDS, BBC, OSM or GNU are. > > Whether Spar is an abbreviation is doubtful. Spar is Dutch for spruce > (a species of tree), hence the logo. According to this article [1] (in > Dutch), the name originally only referred to the tree, and only later > a slogan was made up of which the initials corresponded to the letters > in 'De Spar'. According to wikipedia SPAR is an acronym of Door Eendrachtig Samenwerken Profiteren Allen Regelmatig, although the DE has been dropped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_(retailer)#Etymology
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