From: Bill Lucy 

In article , nomail{at}hotmail.com says...
> > DDT, maybe. Of course, we could also include the non-people things like
> > FBI, CIA, DEA, DHS, SSA.
> >
> > Or we could go to the actual subject line.
>
> I don't follow, IKE is a nickname for Eisenhower, DDE is the 3 initials,
> hence, DDE fits, IKE doesn't.

Gene's thing was on abbreviations. A nickname is an abbreviation.

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