Provider has a different meaning in my work world so every day I grin at that word while no one has any idea why I'm grinning.  I worry about the lingo of the hobby becoming so natural that I'll slip up one day at home or work!

You mean like this?

http://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/jecgro/v4y1999i2p185-211.html


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Up here in New England there's a chain of discount stores called BJs.

back when I worked in Nashville, our cute little receptionist would answer the phone with the acronym for our department (Management Information Services) or MIS.  So all day long whenever the phone would ring, in her sweet southern accent, she would say "MIS".  It caused me on several occasions to stop dead in my tracks because it sounded to me like she was saying "IN MY ASS".

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It was a chain in Detroit owned by Jews (Meyer Jewelry to be exact). All the mangangement and sales people were Jews. Only the clerks and janitors were Gentiles. When I'd write a receipt for fixing someone's watch I'd write out WATCH REPAIR. When it was a piece of jewelry I'd abbreviate it as JEW REPAIR.

They liked me so I got to keep my job after they noticed.

I thought this meant the currency had been handled by human hands, tucked in g-strings or otherwise dirtied and germed up.

My company uses acrononyms like crazy.  GFE and PSE are two that I see almost every day and without fail, my mind diverts to the hobby immediately whenever they come up.

I love it when an Exec or presenter uses the terms in a sentence like "If we don't improve our PSE capabilities we will lose customers to the competition".  If they only knew....

let's see, there's Katy, Madison, Genni, Taylor.............

oh- you meant like golf?