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Friday 25th January 2008

The people from MIMAS have written back to me:

Dear Ian

The letters stand for Manchester Information & Associated Services. The word ‘and’ is very rarely included in acronyms such as this, and in this case I think they would simply have wanted to make the acronym easy to pronounce.

Best regards
Adam West
Central HR Admin Assistant
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Dear Adam

Thank you for your e-mail.

I agree the word ‘and’ is very rarely included in an acronym. Also, not generally included in an acronym is a letter in the middle of a word.

If we allow letters in the middle of words to form part of the acronym, then:

Liverpool Football Club

or

LFC

Could become

LFOC

Liverpool Football Club.


LFOC is much easier to pronounce than LFC.

I look forward to your thoughts on this matter.

Kind regards


Ian Carpenter