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Once you learn the answer I hope you feel that you have fed your mind something for today.

FED refers to the Federal Reserve System, to differentiate it from reference to the federal government. The term "FED" has been in use since a time when acronyms would have been punctuated by periods, such as "F.E.D."

Reality says

FED refers to the Federal Reserve System, to differentiate it from reference to the federal government. The term "FED" has been in use since a time when acronyms would have been punctuated by periods, such as "F.E.D."

That makes no sense, and I'm not sure I buy that explanation.

Everyone refers to it as "the Fed." The Federal government is "the Feds" or maybe "the federales."

Moreover, why wouldn't the difference between the Fed and the federal government be obvious in context?

Certainly the media doesn't do it -- every article says "the Fed," and there's absolutely no confusion. If this were actually a real thing, wouldn't one of the major style guides say that we should capitalize it? As far as I can tell, it's only ignorant commenters on the internet who do this.

Why are ignorant people unable to determine what is important and what is not?

corntrollio says

Everyone refers to it as "the Fed." The Federal government is "the Feds" or maybe "the federales."

Then nobody refers to it as FED, according to you. What's your question again?

corntrollio says

Certainly the media doesn't do it -- every article says "the Fed," and there's absolutely no confusion. If this were actually a real thing, wouldn't one of the major style guides say that we should capitalize it? As far as I can tell, it's only ignorant commenters on the internet who do this.

What the heck is a "major style guide"? The term FED is frequently used in books, as in proper books and papers on economics. To some extent, it may also reflect the invented "proper-name" nature of the FED; i.e. the FED is about as federal as FedEx.

How someone pronounces something is less important than what they are trying to say.

If you ever want to see Karma satisfaction, just see the look on an immigrants face, after he tried to warn some elitist honky of some impending danger, but was ignored be cause he didn't use the right vowel and constant combination in the correct linguistic manner.

"Oye! Cabron, I toll yu, you bear whatchow"

You took the words right outta my mouth, cap'n.

Its a lesser intelligent folks burden to headache over proper english, spelling, syntax etc. To an intelligent utilitarian, so long as one can convey what they are (trying) to communicate, nothing else matters.

Disclaimer, for the life of me I cannot understand how people interchange lose and loose. I've spent more then enough time headaching about it, but it still bothers me EVERY FUCKING TIME I SEE IT

Punctuation and grammar are for obsessive compulsive flits.

Plus, it's all Obama's fault, and these bot spell checkers/correcters.

Reality says

What the heck is a "major style guide"?

For example, the Chicago Manual of Style or the MLA, the APA if you're a psychologist, or the BlueBook if you're in the law.

Reality says

The term FED is frequently used in books, as in proper books and papers on economics.

Find it for me where it's capitalized like ignorant internet commenters write. The above style guides, among others likely wouldn't permit it.

The Professor says

The most valuable skill you should get from an education is the ability to express your ideas with the written and spoken word. When someone uses the wrong word it makes your train of thought jump and you have to take the time to process the correction.

Generally speaking, the ability to do this stuff correctly can be a marker of education or class. As The Professor says, when you screw this up, people either process the correction or think about the lack of attention to detail and what it might mean in terms of the credibility of the voice. That doesn't mean people who aren't of a particular education or class aren't able to think critically -- some certainly are.

Nonetheless, these cues will add a lot more to your credibility. Like it or not, that's how the world works, "intelligent" utilitarians notwithstanding. People already account for being a foreigner when viewing these cues, so ProfessorShaddup's comment is mostly irrelevant here.

Anyway, it sounds like the answer is what I thought it was. Carry on.

FED is an acronym. Federal Economic Douchebags.

General Grant's secretary went to President Lincoln telling Lincoln that he had to do something about Grant as he was an alcoholic.

Lincoln replied, find out what he is drinking and send a case to every one of my generals.

This is typical of lefties who #1 are "right", #2 use use form over function, #3 think that an analogy is a fact i.e. that good grammar correlates to logic 100% of the time, let alone is casual.