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From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Where does the name TARDIS come from?
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 17:08:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 17:08:57 1985
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> A possible explaination:
> 
> Susan is credited with coming up for the name of TARDIS from Time and
> Relative Dimensions in Space.  Yet other people recognize the name,
> both on Gallifrey and other planets.
> 
> Remember that the Doctor had some high role in Gallifrey society
> before he left.  Could it not have been Time Capsule design?  If so,
> couldn't his granddaughter have come up with a name, which because
> he later kept using it became standard?
> 
And do recall, the Master (Pertwe episodes -- those being freshest in my
inexact memory) calls his TARDIS a TARDIS.  

I suggest that the writers weren't (aren't) as up on Whoism as you folks --
the Writer's Guide (if it exists) probably says The Doctor's ship is a TARDIS, 
ergo every Time Lord's ship is a TARDIS.  Alas, when you're dealing with many,
many writers, consistency suffers -- especially for details such as that.
After all, before this line of thoughtfulness, *I* thought they all were
TARDISes, too.
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