ANST - Re: Abreviations: was protocol

Lee Cavett catsden at texas.net
Thu May 28 18:23:54 PDT 1998


Larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 1998 23:42:24 -0500, Lee Cavett <catsden at texas.net>
> wrote:
> 
> :>"Alphabet soup" is, as far as I have been able to discover, one of the
> :>many Victorian practices that have crept into common usage in the SCA.
> :>There are no "official" abbreviations for the various awards other
> :>than those in the OP, which are there merely to make it easier to sort
> :>with a computer. The ones we use for the peerages, by the way, are
> :>MOL, MOP, MSCA, and KSCA. 
> 
> Eh? The OP that I have [with the ominous date of April 1, AS XXXII
> (1998 CE) ] lists KSCA, MSCA, PoA, ML, and MP .  For that matter so
> does the OP dated Jan 20, 1997  
> 
> Have we started abbreviating Master/Mistress of the Laurel as MOL
> and Master/Mistress of the Pelican as MOP?  Hey, maybe we could get
> another badge passed; "fieldless crossed MOPs proper" :)
No, I just had a case of reverse addressing, thinking that I have seen
MOL and MOP used, incorrectly, when I meant to say we use ML and MP. I
really need to get more sleep...

And that badge might open one up to a charge of MOPery.

Donal
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