Tuesday, February 05, 2013

acronym of the day: WYSIWYG

The acronym of the day is WYSIWYG.  It stands for "what you see is what you get".


"Kedit (pronounced "kay-edit"), a product of the Mansfield Software Group, is the only text editor I have ever used.  I have never used a word processor.  Kedit did not paginate, italicize, approve of spelling, or screw around with headers, WYSIWYGs, thesauruses, dictionaries, footnotes, or Sanskrit fonts."

 - John McPhee, "Structure: Beyond the picnic-table crisis", 14 January 2013 The New Yorker


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