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From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
Subject: Re: ADA the acronym - amusement
Date: 19 Sep 2003 18:11:59 -0700
Date: 2003-09-20T01:12:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4682ab7.0309191711.486b9e7e@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bebbba07.0309162351.227a4830@posting.google.com

18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote in message news:<bebbba07.0309162351.227a4830@posting.google.com>...
> I'm sure that many of you know all too well that ADA stands for
> "Americans with Disabilities Act," which causes some confusion. Well,
> that's not all it stands for:
> 
> Ada  [not an acronym] DoD Standard Computer Software Language
> ADA American Dental Association
> ADA American Diabetes Association 
> etc., etc., etc.

Plus it's a city in Oklahoma.

                               -- Adam



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-20  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-17  7:51 ADA the acronym - amusement Russ
2003-09-17 10:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-09-17 20:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-09-20  1:11 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2003-09-20  1:59   ` Rod Haper
2003-09-20  3:14     ` Wes Groleau
2003-09-20  6:21       ` Rod Haper
2003-09-22 21:15         ` Randy Brukardt
2003-09-20  6:29       ` Anders Wirzenius
2003-09-22 19:29 ` Brian Gaffney
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