On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 04:02 +0000, Howard Winter wrote: > Then there's the tautological augmentation of acronyms - the worst one I heard was "Personal PIN number"... it was on the radio or I would have pointed out that > he'd just said: "personal personal identification number number"! :-) Most grammer type stuff doesn't bug me, but that one for some reason does. While I haven't personally heard someone say "Personal PIN number, I do often hear people on this side of the pond saying "PIN Number", or "SIN Number". TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist