• ooterness@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    US Army logistics catalogs are organized this way. “Cookies, oatmeal” instead of “Oatmeal cookies” because it’s a lot easier to find what you need an a giant alphabetical list.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, it’s all well and good to use the standard colloquial terms in something like a menu, but in large scale logistics you want shit like this because otherwise you’re going to go crazy over it