[time-nuts] Loran?
J. Forster
jfor at quik.com
Mon Dec 20 20:49:44 UTC 2010
OED be damned!
I'm not going to change the name of one of my Yahoo Groups from
Vintage-Military-RADAR
So there ! :)
-Jo0hn
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> As written in Wikipedia and as I have always understood: "The term
> RADAR was coined in 1940 by the U.S. Navy as an acronym for radio
> detection and ranging."
>
> David
>
> At 01:04 PM 12/20/2010, you wrote:
> IMO this trend is a two edged sword:
>
> I don't like to see the historical aspect of the name lost by it
> becomming
> a lower-case noun.
>
> OTOH, it's been said that the ultimate tribute in Physics is to become
> "part of the furniture", like Newton's or Maxwell's Laws.
>
> FWIW,
>
> -John
>
> ===============
>
>
> > The Oxford dictionary has "radar", "loran" and
> "scuba" all listed in lower
> > case.
> >
> > Also according to them "radar" never was an acronym. It is a
> coined
> > word. Technically to be an acronym the it must be spelled by the
> > first letter of several other words. "SCUBA" is an acronym
> but
> > "scuba" is now a common English word that has displaced the
> old 1950's
> > vintage "SCUBA" in modern usage. But "radar" was
> never an acronym.
> >
> > The Oxford English Dictionary takes the view that the English
> > language changes with time. You can disagree. Many people do and
> > claim English has fixed rules that never change but if you do then you
> > will have to pick a date for when it was "correct" and then
> explain
> > how it could be incorrect before that date.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:07 AM, paul swed wrote:
> >> Indeed. But thats the way it goes.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:52 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> >>
> >>> There ain't no such thing as Loran. It's LORAN, just like RADAR.
> >>>
> >>> They are BOTH acronyms.
> >>>
> >>> -John
> >>>
> >>> =================
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> > There never was a Loran receiver with a keypad. I am certain he
> >>> meant
> >>> > Loran C. Loran is (was) the common name for the service... But
> then,
> >>> > you already knew that, and were just trying to stir things up.
> >>> >
> >>> > -Chuck Harris
> >>> >
> >>> > Max Robinson wrote:
> >>> >> He didn't say Loran C he said Loran. That is the old system that
> >>> used
> >>> >> to operate just above the AM broadcast band and took away most of
> >>> the
> >>> >> 160 meter ham band. That hasn't been around for decades. I don't
> >>> think
> >>> >> there is a version of it operating anywhere in the world.
> >>> >
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