"ANWR" (pronounced "Ann-Warr") vs. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

[bunkerbuster1]

on first reference anyway; thereafter, just "the Wildlife Refuge" or "Refuge" will do, for me.

Anyway, isn't it telling that so few pundits bother to spell out what ANWR actually stands for?

[InvisibleTouch]

1. Words are important.

An acronym, a collection of letters, has less emotional impact than the key word in the name: Refuge. As in, a place where Wildlife is supposed to be safe.

[LynneSin]

2. Repukes call it ANWR because it doesn't sound like anything worth saving...

everyone else calls it the Arctic Refuge because we think there is a reason to save it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. About as telling

as DUers doing the same thing with scads of acronyms.

[bunkerbuster1]

5. I've no problem with acronyms and abbreviations

I do think, however, that it'd be nice to remember when talking about the Wildlife Refuge that it's supposed to be a Wildlife Refuge.

(I'm not completely militant on the topic of drilling for oil there, by the way. I just don't want anyone to forget what we'd be losing if we were to do so. I also don't want anyone to get away with pretending like one untapped oil reserve is the answer to our energy supply issues.)

[Submariner]

4. A sensitive and very important Caribou calving and nursery habitat