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From: "Lisa McKinney" <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] "died young" and "d.y."
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:14:15 -0500
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Had to laugh!

ESM wrote " what is the advantage to using an abbreviation in the first
place?" The abbreviation under discussion was "d.y." for "died young," which
I had not seen yet. The only advantage I could see would be in a table with
a too-narrow fixed width column, but that seemed so unlikely I didn't post.

Well, this morning -- as usually happens when you "never" see an
abbreviation, I saw "Dy." Different punctuation and context, and I had
never (really!) seen this one before either. It means "deputy," as in
"deputy editor."

So, live and learn! I've lived on this earth all this time with no
knowledge of "dy" (only DIY!), and here we have two instances in less than a
week.

Have a nice dy! :)

Lisa McKinney
Texas

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Ida wrote:
>In looking through the archives for some of the RootsWeb lists, I do
>not
find a discussion of "died young" and its abbreviation "d.y." Even last
year's seemingly exhaustive coverage of the BCG Standards on the TGF list
does not seem to mention it.

>I have my own opinions on the subject, but I am looking for a rather
thorough discussion of this topic, pros and cons. Does anyone have
source(s) for such a discussion?


Ida, what is the advantage to using an abbreviation in the first place? Why
would anyone want to use an abbreviation that would confuse most people
today--not to mention future generations as well--just to save 5 keystrokes?


Elizabeth

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Tennessee

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