Rich, you have the last word on your fourth grade tormentors. In TDWG, one should be justifiably proud of being called a dwchead ! On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Richard Pyle <deepreef@bishopmuseum.org> wrote:
Its glorious advantage is that its mnemonic and pronunciation are "mermaid". mrmd is far more evocative than dwc ("dwick" too close to "dweeb", or worse), ncd (sounds like somebody stole something), or sdd (which we continually have to explain is not meant to be a homonym for the acronym of Sexually Transmitted Disease).
This paragraph *COMPLETELY* made my morning! Thank you!
Rich (who is both a dweeb, and who has a first name which, decades ago, was commonly substituted with a word that rhymes with "dwick")
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