[time-nuts] Obscure terms

Jim Palfreyman jim77742 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 06:54:22 UTC 2009


Maybe google australia does it differently?


2009/8/20 Bob Martinson <REMartinson at rcn.com>:
> Strange, its the first item on my Google of "rch"  note, no caps & no
> quotes.
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> Did the google thing. Got Royal Children's Hospital. Found nothing in
> the first two pages. Gave up. Emailed time-nuts. Of course it was on
> the third page.
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> Never thought to type it into wikipedia...
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> Thanks to all who have helped!
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> Jim
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> 2009/8/20 Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
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>>> Can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what these
>>> stand for?
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>> You must not be very miserable.  Google usually does a good job of
> answering
>> that type of question.  There are a couple of sites that collect acronyms
> and
>> several sites that collect slang.
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>> In this case, the top pair of results are good hits and down near the
> bottom
>> of the first page is the Wikipedia page that covers it:
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(unit_of_measurement)
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>> Sometimes it helps to add acronym or slang to the search string.
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