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ynniv
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A Wikipedia alias counts as evidence of usage? I've never heard USSC either. Google thinks its United States Stove Company, or United States Sentencing Commission:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ussc
Semiapies
on Feb 4, 2010
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Well, yes, as it's
a use
, it's evidence of use. I didn't exactly invent it. :)
Try googling
+ussc "supreme court"
. It's a less-used, but real initialism.
ynniv
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Points for "initialism". I was about to write you off as a neologist, but then I learned that most acronyms are actually initialisms.
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I use USASC, but that's even less used.
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