my favourite abbreviation is CIDNP, pronounce kidnap, essentially, because is scary, chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarisation. Don't ask me what it is though! I also like ZFS; ZPL, which is almost NPL; and FWHM... all terribly entangling my tongue and two of them contain the world zero, which is, as far as in know almost universal so zeo field splitting, alas national field splitting can be a national coutryside protest; mh..and zero phonon line; again with national phonon line, probably involving the mobile phones owner {isn't it one of the most useless device ever reached such a popularity, it might reflect my presonal allergy to phone, but the mobile one is definitely definitely surely qt the bottom in the list. well well, wait a minute, not, the fake X-ray pen is, sorry. I have received 1 phone call on the thing in the last 6 months, i haven't try to learn how to use the pen in the last 18. which proves I'm scarily old, and my deskmate at the lower higher school bough some dodgy magazine. actually i think he did use to nick them from the newsagent}. some people like to call it zero zero phonon line, which increases the number of zeros, but not much than that. suspiciously you can have an estimate from hole burning measurements. {however if i burn q hole in a mobile i doubt it will work afterwards}. full width at half maximun, hadly applicable units for humans as is generally given in cm-1. but can i suggest it will be accepted as a unified standards for defining the dress size, medium large small extra small huge large are auite anbiguouse. if you noz they are 254876 cm-1 FWHM you would just need q ruller to knoz if it will fit you or not, and avoid the very annoing practice of try on clotes, that is why I don't buy them and still recicle the same stuff for the last almost 18 years. which proves I havn't grown much since lower hi-school. but, it is falling apart. elastic and analistic scatter salutoni stefano Quoting robin stout <stoutrobin@hotmail.com>:

As Jarvis once helpfully explained, Cocker is short for "A sucker of cock". Apart from this, my favourite abbreviations are:

flu which is short for "influenza" pram, which is short for "perambulator" and soccer, which is short for "association football"

I like it when people add all of the abbreviation marks into words that no one else does anymore. Occasionally I'll receive correspondence at Stout Towers in which someone tells me how they 'phoned the 'bus company 'cause it was late, or some such, and I'll get excited about all of the completely unnecessary apostrophes that they've scattered all over. The other day I received a document from the inventor of a television aerial, and whenever he referred to a television he called it a "TeleVision", including quote marks, as if this was some wonderful new word that he'd coined last Tuesday instead of in 1908. This also made me unfeasably happy.

I saw someone in our car park here at work the other day who was wearing an "I'm a B&S Bookworm" t-shirt. I imagine he must have been wearing it all day. I stared at him somewhat, mostly in shock, and he looked quite scared like i might murder him.

I'm not so sure about "fall", but my favourite season is autumn. It's a treat being able to wear your hat, gloves and long coat while the sky is still clear and blue. People always look so much better dressed in their winter clothes, I think.

Robinx

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