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Old 03-29-2011, 04:42 AM   #59
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Originally Posted by jehane View Post
Fascinating. Some of those are on my pet peeve list as well. And now I have another one: what is the correct short form for "medical evacuation"? I prefer "medevac" but apparently everyone else I work with uses "medivac". At least they didn't "correct" my report. The internet suggests that both are acceptable.
I think the internet suggests that medevac is the more common form (by a long way)

medivac: 495,000 results (and "Did you mean: medevac")
medevac: 3,360,000 results

It seems thre was an Australian TV series called Medivac, which might explain your colleagues' preference for that spelling. Dialecticon shows that Medivac seems to be much more common in Australian English than elsewhere:

http://www.chaucery.com/fun/dialecti...hrase2=medivac

medevac:medivac
US: 76:23
Canada: 72:28
UK: 69:31
Australia: 43:57
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