Nam

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(place) by StrawberryFrog (5.8 hr) (print) ? 1 C! Wed Dec 05 2001 at 9:57:32

NAM is the ISO 3166 country code for Namibia, formerly Southwest Africa.

Namibia is often called Nam (rhymes with ham) by South Africans.
Firstly because it is a reasonable abbreviation.
Secondly because all cars from Namibia sport a sticker with this country code.
And lastly as a joke, for the parallels with Vietnam. The Apartheid South African Government fought an eventually futile war against SWAPO - communist, soviet-backed terrorists er... freedom fighters in Namibia in the 1980s.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:22:06

Nam (?). [Contr. fr. ne am.]

Am not.

[Obs.]

Nam, obs. imp.

of Nim.

Chaucer.

'Nam	Grammatication	Vietnam	Changing the Alpha Tag on Nokia Phones
Saigon	TDM	Namibia	Lai Khe
Nim	Megumi Hayashibara	January 30, 2006	Motorola Bible: Programming Info
Fire Island	Vietnam Service Medal	Fate takes a piss	Unusual Japanese foods
Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America	Uncle Tom's cabin: A true tale	DEFENSE EMERGENCY	Narn
Henry Shrapnel	freedom fighter	guerilla	South Africa

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