Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Why so long?

I'm sure you've heard this joke before...but why is the word abbreviation so long?

I never really thought about it before, but today I was searching for time zone abbreviations, and it dawned upon me why people make this joke.

Seems pretty silly and counterintuitive to me.  

1 comment:

Ryan Moore said...

maybe you should abbreviate "counterintuitive" as c.i.