Well I guess we are getting "nuts" about this. Yes OED says "radar orig. U.S. [f. radio detection and ranging.]" but that does not mean it is an acronym. OED reserves the term "acronym" for words made using only the fist letter of each description word. "radar" uses the first two letters from "radio" and so OED uses only the "f."
I have the full version of OED at home. I'll try to look it up. I bet they have a page length article on "radar". The on-line version is very slimmed down On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Jean-Louis Noel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > From: "Chris Albertson" <[email protected]> > >> Also according to them "radar" never was an acronym. > > OED says: radar orig. U.S. [f. radio detection and ranging.] > > Bye, > Jean-Louis > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- ===== Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
