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Retired professional engineer living near Toronto, Ontario, Canada with an on-going interest in the English language and somewhat of a facility for proofreading.

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GALS	Giant African Land Snails Academic & Science » Zoology
OFMAR	Operational Framework for Mutual Aid Requests Governmental » FDA
OFMAR	Operational Framework for Mutual Aid Requests Medical
RPS	Real Property Solutions Regional » Canadian
RPS	Real Property Solutions Business » Mortgage
RPS	Real Property Solutions Business » Real Estate
RPS	Real Property Solutions Business » Companies & Firms
SCOTUS	Supreme Court Of The United States Governmental » Law & Legal
NAF	National Abortion Federation Medical » Pregnancy & Parenting
NAF	National Abortion Federation Governmental » Federation
NAF	National Abortion Federation Business » Professional Organizations
CONAIE	Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador Regional
CONAIE	Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador Community
CONAIE	Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador Governmental
PDAC	Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Community » Development
PDAC	Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Academic & Science » Geology
PDAC	Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Business » Trade Associations
CAT	Centre for Alternative Technology Miscellaneous » Farming & Agriculture

Latest Comments: 6 total

	If one casts a vote but a finger much larger than the stars leads to the wrong one being registered (or if one simply has 2nd thoughts) there should be a way to revise (overwrite?) the vote. 3 months ago	View
	Entries receive votes that award them from 1 to 5 stars. Apart from that there is no ranking. How could you possibly "rank" USA against NASA against UNHCR? 3 months ago	View
	There are currently 99 definitions for the acronym BOSS. Entering the acronym in the Search box will take you here: https://www.abbreviations.com/BOSS 3 months ago	View
	—CLIP— The disease name (which in many cases is different from the virus name) has been designated as COVID-19 by the WHO. The '19' in COVID-19 stands for the year, 2019, that the virus was first seen. The number '19' has nothing whatsoever to do with virus strains, genotypes, or anything else related to the virus' genetics. The virus name was announced by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020. See the February 11 World Health Organization Situation Report. This clearly states that "WHO has named the disease COVID-19, short for 'coronavirus disease 2019'.” —END CLIP—International Committee on Taxomony of Viruses https://talk.ictvonline.org/information/w/news/1300/page more » 6 months ago	View
	I have no issues with the gist of this entry, but in the first sentence "COVID-19" should not be used in apposition to "the name of the coronavirus", which is SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the name of the disease, COrona VIrus Disease 2019. more » 10 months ago	View
	To your first question, it is COVID or CoVID because this too is an acronym (https://www.abbreviations.com/term/2192794) 10 months ago	View

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