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[Bob Morris]

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 at 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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