thrower"), with English decoding "rocket-propelled grenade" appearing later as a backronym.

Yahoo!, sometimes claimed to mean "yet another hierarchical officious oracle", was in fact chosen because Yahoo's founders liked the word's meaning of "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth" (taken from Jonathan Swift's book Gulliver's Travels).

The distress call "pan-pan" is commonly stated to

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