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Re: IED

From: boris%monsoon.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Boris Chen)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 19:23:39 -0700
Subject: Re: IED
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In article <m0kXHMb-0000VYC@coyote.datalog.com> judi@coyote.datalog.COM (Judi McKernan) writes:
>
>   Someone recently asked what IED stood for. While I don't think anyone
>really knows for sure, someone once offered me a rumour that it was
>taken from an abbreviation for "In Excelsis Deo". Could be....?

I was thinking that maybe it is Dei spelled backwards. (well, of course
it is, but my question is: Is that how it was derived?)

-boris