# What's a N.gi.WC.M.e.EC.FP.o.S.Dk.O.K.???

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-n-gi-wc-m-e-ec-fp-o-s-dk-o-k/248580>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 4, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-n-gi-wc-m-e-ec-fp-o-s-dk-o-k/248580 "2004-06-04T04:13:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-n-gi-wc-m-e-ec-fp-o-s-dk-o-k/248580/21 "2004-06-04T23:08:10Z")

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> [@Finagle](#):
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> Could they be sales territories? S. DK. and O.K. could be South Dakota and Oklahoma. And I suppose WC and EC could be Western Calgary (or Canada) and Eastern Calgary. But N.gi is anyone’s guess. And I don’t know why all the periods and uppercase/lowercase mishmosh.

That’s the only thing that might possibly make sense.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-n-gi-wc-m-e-ec-fp-o-s-dk-o-k/248580/22 "2004-06-05T00:59:37Z")

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> [@BiblioCat](#):
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> That’s what I’m thinking. I used to work for a guy (who was a smarmy little prick) who had regular business cards, but also had other business cards just like his regular business cards but with H.M.F.W.I.C.O.E. on them under his name. I never asked him what it meant (didn’t want to give him the satisfaction), but instead asked the office manager. It meant “Head Mother Fucker Who’s In Charge Of Everything.” :rolleyes:  
> He also had notepaper and stationery with it. He thought it was just oh so clever.
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> It always annoyed me, because I thought “mother fucker” should have been one word.

HMFWIC (pronounced MIFF-wick) is standard US military slang for the guy in charge, usually of something relatively minor. The messhall has a HMFWIC, an aircraft carrier doesn’t.

I doubt HMFWIC would be routinely applied to things with women in charge, but I left the service before women were common enough that I encountered the situation. Perhaps they’d be HMWIC’s???

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**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-n-gi-wc-m-e-ec-fp-o-s-dk-o-k/248580/23 "2004-06-05T01:07:01Z")

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> [@BiblioCat](#):
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> It always annoyed me, because I thought “mother fucker” should have been one word.

You don’t happen to speak German as a first language, do you?

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**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-n-gi-wc-m-e-ec-fp-o-s-dk-o-k/248580/24 "2004-06-05T18:41:28Z")

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> [@Mathochist](#):
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> You don’t happen to speak German as a first language, do you?

No. 😕 Am I being whooshed?

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**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-n-gi-wc-m-e-ec-fp-o-s-dk-o-k/248580/25 "2004-06-05T20:15:17Z")

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> [@BiblioCat](#):
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> No. 😕 Am I being whooshed?

In German, you can make new nouns simply by combining other words. In German, “mother-fucking son of a bitch” could probably be rendered as a single word.

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