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Is "pee ew" a slang interjection indicating that something stinks in British English like it is in American English?


Always got to watch those acronyms. Reminds me of back in the day when Oregon State started advertising its website on billboards. www.orst.edu. [1] Nobody in their marketing department managed to see that before the rest of the world quickly started making fun of it. They quickly rebranded to www.oregonstate.edu.

[1] Yes, that's not -exactly- an acronym


Orst for Oregon State is technically an acronym:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

It's not an initialism, like IBM, but it is an acronym, like Benelux.




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