Talk:quango

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quango

Latest comment: 17 years ago10 comments5 people in discussion

--Connel MacKenzie 04:45, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Note that capitalized, it seems well attested as an African river. But I don't see this use. --Connel MacKenzie 05:02, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Looks good to me. The OED has this "A semi-public administrative body outside the civil service but financed by the exchequer and having members appointed by the government." SemperBlotto 07:13, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Very common in Australia. Sometimes spelt Quango.--Dmol 08:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

OK, stricken. Can you please fix the capitalization (which is correct?) --Connel MacKenzie 14:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Hmmm. Why isn't is QUANGO with the ==={{acronym}}=== heading? --Connel MacKenzie 14:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Because it's an acronym that has become a common noun, like radar and laser. — Paul G 15:36, 14 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

I'd suggest quango, with Quango as an alt spelling. Maybe mark QUANGO as a rare alt spelling.--Dmol 13:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

A quick search on http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=quango gives over 900 entries. That is just one newspaper. I think that quango (lower case) can be verified easily enough. Algrif 17:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

I also seem to remember it comes from Quasi Autonomous Non Governmental Organisation. All caps would not be really correct for this kind of acronymic derivation, IMHO. Algrif 17:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Etymology needs to be expanded

Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This entry should explain when, and by whom, this term first appeared. 71.66.97.228 00:37, 27 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Right!; ... and -- just maybe -- it might need to be ... not only expanded, but perhaps also corrected.
At least according to the Latest revision as of 19:41, 26 September 2024 of "w:Quango" (which is a specific version of that article), it says -- in the second sentence of the lede paragraph -- that :

The term was originally a shortening of "quasi NGO", where NGO is the acronym for a non-government organisation.

I had already been 'considering' suggesting to change the word "two" (to "three") where it says

From the initial letters (the first two letters for the first word) of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization.

because
  • for one thing, is "quasi-autonomous" one << word >>, or two? Obviously, the wikitext seems to be making it act as two separate hyperlinks -- (one for "quasi-" and one for "autonomous") -- but, even though it is a hyphenated word, -- (some would say, a compound word) -- simply having each "half" of the compound word count as a hyperlink, does not necessarily mean that each "half", there, is a "word". IMHO, a compound word (hyphenated or not) should "count as" one word;
and
  • for another reason, see the ":" above, (from the second sentence of the Wikipedia article "w:Quango") about what "he term was originally ".

Finally, ("note" that) the first three letters of "quasi-autonomous" are the same as: ... the first two letters of "quasi-", followed by the first letter of "autonomous". (It so happens.)
Any comments? --Mike Schwartz (talk) 12:47, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
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