Re: The Saharan page (was: Basque article)

Matt Pearson wrote:

> The kinds of blends which our loony Basque-lover is talking about,
> where the beginnings of words are combined, is less common, but you
> do find some examples, especially in military and diplomatic jargon.
The U.S. Navy does these instead of using acronyms, as they consider
them more mnemonic and more pronounceable.   For example, Naval
Operations is called OpNav.  My favorite is the functional title
Assistant Communicator = AssCom.

> I suspect that the word "internet"
> might have a similar origin (= inter-computer + network ??), but
> I'm not sure.
Nope.  "Internet" means just that, the result of combining networks,
and is analogous to "international".

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