| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
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Increnyms and Decrenyms are sets of acronyms where each corresponding pair of letters differ by a set number of places in the alphabet. (I know this because I just coined the terms, as far as I know.) The most famous ones are probably the computer-related ones. (Actually, they're the only ones I could think of.) IBM - 1 = HAL (order 1, length 3 decrenym) VMS + 1 = WNT (order 1, length 3 increnym) As you can see, increnyms and decrenyms occur in pairs. The question is this: Has anyone come across any higher order pairs? Any longer ones? I guess if you played with transposition cyphers a lot, you might have stumbled over a few of these. I haven't, so I'm curious. Wook
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| 1155.1 | SMURF::BINDER | Night's candles are burnt out. | Thu Sep 21 1995 07:10 | 6 | |
I haven't any higher-order or longer ones, but the name OZ is an
increnym from NY, the state in which L. Frank Baum lived when he wrote
_The Wonderful Wizard of Oz._ Although it is not known with certainty
whether this was the origin of the name of his fantastical land, it
seems plausible - and, actually, more so than the tale that Baum had a
two-drawer filing cabinet with the drawers labeled A-N and O-Z.
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| 1155.2 | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | My Cow is dead! | Thu Sep 21 1995 15:45 | 14 | |
G'day,
good to see that we in Oz are one up on those in NY...
I always (well for 8+ years anyway) thought a decrenym was an acronym
used inside digital...
'cos even FLAs come down to a TLA in the end
and end -> foe.. the end is teh enemy of many
dj
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| 1155.3 | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Thu Sep 21 1995 17:56 | 2 | |
Decrenym is the most common work done in Digital's personnel department,
though Desperado recently reported a rare increnym.
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