Please, a dictionary of acronyms

[Allen Hazen <allenph@unimelb.edu.au>]

I think Eike's coinages (sternad, scapulad) are kind of neat!  Once 
you remember the convention that the suffix "ad" means toward (it's 
easy to remember if you did Latin in highschool, though the Romans 
didn't use their prepositions as suffixes), the terminology is 
self-explanatory, which good terminology ought to be in order to 
minimize demands on memory.   ...   Hey, the convention can even 
resolve the ugliness of stuff like "cranial caudal": the proximal 
caudals would be the "craniaD caudaLs," whereas the bones of the 
occiput would be the "caudaD craniaLs" (not that I would recommend 
USING those last two).

On another broadly nomenclatural front, could somebody compile a 
little dictionary (that I could print out and keep next to my 
computer) of all the acronyms for positions and theories about bird 
evolution?  "BAD" is sort of obvious, but some of the others are 
harder to remember.  What's WAIR, for example?

Allen Hazen
Philosophy Department
University of Melbourne