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StringJunky
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You may find the following use of abbreviations amusing. many years ago I worked in the UK for an American computer company (Sperry Univac). Like many of the others I was ex-British Forces with a reasonable experience of modern technology. Very often when we had to return a faulty item we would, as in the Forces, label it as unserviceable. The way we did it was to clearly mark it "U/S" or "U.S.". For some (strange?) reason our American masters didn't like us returning faulty items marked like this and asked us to mark them differently. So we scratched our heads for an alternative and from then on decided to mark the faulty items "Duff"! We had no more complaints!

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