I have 2 nits to pick, one Wiki's, one yours, Dan. The Wiki entry
omits a fairly important accent on the initial 'o', the one which
indicates how to pronounce it. Yours is that "ATM" is not an
acronym, a word in itself; it's an abbreviation.
The former is an important omission in that it leads me to mistrust
most of the entry.
The latter is just something that I notice a great deal :-)
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
www.threeshoes.net & homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 23 Mar 2007, at 18:36, Dan Mitchell wrote:
> Ah, I'm just in the middle of writing a comment about "the hoi
> polloi"
> -vs- "hoi polloi", so I'll tag onto yours.
>
> I had exactly the same argument with someone a while ago -- is it
> like
> "ATM machine", etc? It's not as clear, because redundant words next to
> acronyms aren't quite the same; similarly, "the algebra test" is also
> redundant, but algebra has had the "al" folded into the main word.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi#Questions_on_usage
>
> talks about this -- the best equivalent is "I'd like my beef
> sandwich
> with au jus"..
>
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