[Milsurplus] Acronym Nitpicking

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
Well, when I was US Air Corps, and then USAF,
WILCO ment "Will Comply".  It's immaterial as the
font on the Teletype machines were Upper Case.
And, it was a spoken thing, not printed out, but
could be.
Trivia, but with telephone companies, when an
circuit order comes down to the central office
where some equipment has to be wired together
to make a new circuit, a reply, "ACK" means the
order was received, "WACK" was sent back to
mean the order was received and worked.
That's how time changes a few things, but keeps
the general idea.
73  Clete
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On 5/14/2013 4:24 PM, J. Forster wrote:
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> Assume, Upper/Lower text is being used.
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> Should it be WILCO or Wilco or WilCo or what?
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> Generally, an acronym is all Upper case:
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> NASA
> DOD
> YMMV, BTW, AFAIK, etc.
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> But in some cases Upper/Lower is used:
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> SCotUS
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> And some have morphed with time:
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> RADAR has become Radar or radar
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> So, what is wilco???
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> Puzzled,
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> -John
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