Useful.

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3 COMPARISON OF USEFUL PHRASES

Nice.

Quoted: Examples of retronyms are acoustic guitar (coined when electric guitars appeared), or Parallel ATA (necessitated by the introduction of Serial ATA) as a term for the original Advanced Technology Attachment. World War I was called The Great War until World War II. The advent of satellite radio has prompted the term terrestrial radio.

Heard about this on NPR yesterday morning.

Quoted: Baljinder Mahal is the author of the book <em>The Queen's Hinglish</em>, a guide to the blending of Hindi and English by Indian immigrants to the U.K. She meets with Rob Gifford in the town of Derby in central England for some practical lessons in Hinglish.

Quoted: The Senate voted to make English the ``national language'' of the U.S. as part of legislation overhauling immigration policy. The measure, approved by a vote of 63-34, directs the government to ``preserve and enhance'' the role of English, without altering current laws that require some government documents and services be provided in other languages.

more on acronyms and apostrophes. seems like dropping the apostrophe is *slightly* preferred.

Quoted: In the several years I've been researching acronyms, I have not found many hard set rules where acronyms are concerned. As long as you follow ...

Quoted: One unusual modern use of the apostrophe is in plural acronyms, like “ICBM’s” “NGO’s” and “CD’s”. Since this pattern violates the rule that apostrophes are ...

I got here by searching for "collar stiffener". This site shows British English phrases and their equivalents in American English.