Crossword-Solution: SNA 3 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly {losing} and {bletcherous} communications protocol widely favored at commercial shops that don't know any better.

Typically used in expressions like the cry that goes up when an SNA network goes down: "Looks like the box has fallen over." (See fall over.) See also IBM, fear and loathing, Blue Glue.

And further unless the vowel a, left after the elision of that letter, be furnished with some etymological mark of distinction, there would be great risk of its being confounded with the â, formative of the singular of many verbal nouns, such as binâ, safâ, jalâ; with the masculine plurals ending in the same letters, such as hukamâ, ághniyâ, kúfarâ; and with the feminine plurals of many adjectives, such as kúbra, súghra, húsna, etc.

You certainly were a cute little boy, and used to call our cook 'Sna-sna.' And here you are, almost a senior." [Illustration: "I can remember you when you were that high."] "Oh, are you 1924? I wonder if you know a fellow named--er--Mellish--Spencer Mellish? I met him at the beach last summer.

NATIVE NAMES.--_Burhel_, _Buroot_, in the Himalayas; _Napu_, _Na_, or _Sna_, Thibet and Ladakh; _Nervati_, in Nepal.