05-10-2011, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by dicksbro
I just remembered a friend of mine from IBM in Toronto told me that Canada came from an old Indian word CND. But when the Canadians spelled it they spelled it C-eh-N-eh-D-eh ... and it stuck.  |
Curiously, people often see CND without realising it. The group "the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament" came up with a symbol joining the C and the D into a split circle, then added the N to the bottom centre. It became the symbol of a generation , the peace symbol.
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