We all know, or at least should, that B.A, stands for Bachelor of Arts. Many Canadian universities offer the B.S.W (Bachelor of Social Work.) It occured to me, being a machinist. that B.S.W also stands for British Standard Whitworth, which is a screw thread form of 55 degrees inclusive angle. It also occured to me that B.A stands for British Association which is also a screw thread form of 47 1/2 degrees inclusive angle, used mainly for electrical work. I thought it would be nice to conduct my higher education by acquiring degrees that have acronyms that correspond with with international screw thread forms. Does anyone know of any degrees that carry the letters U.N.C or U.N.F (Unified National Coarse/ Fine) 'the American Standard threads of 60 degrees inclusive angle? Or any other academic lettres that correspond to the multitude of screw threads? Roy maybery
In Canada, we have a BSc. In the United States they have BS. I loved the acronyms in the military, a whole different language. Our APC mounted TOW approached the FEBA at 23:30 ZULU and an MLVW arrived with MREs. MLVW is a Canadian truck - MRE is American rats. A couple days ago I came across a notebook from an exercise of 20 years ago. They were my notes but I couldn't understand a thing. Had a giggle when I remembered the ticked off captain(ex British Army) with whom I had lost contact for hours. He had missed a radio frequency change.
Of course there is the old joke: Everyone knows what "BS" stands for. "MS" stands for "more _______". "PhD" stands for "piled higher and deeper".
Bear recounts the story of calling the published number of one less-than-wonderful school (in Canada, IIRC), which answered the phone "Spiro's Pizza." Bear surmised that "Ph.D." must've stood for "Pizza, Home Delivery." Then there's the Multum Donavit story about the Yale honorary M.D., also told in Bears' Guides. Highly recommended.
