         Sentence 1: It is a contraction of gung-yeh ho-dzo , “industrial  cooperation, ‘and it caught on because itis easy to proridynce, as  in ‘Nam or the States . 'Nam by itself is no more defugatory or  misleading than shortening airplane or telephone or gung-ho    Sentence 2: Most, Améficans believe that shortening a country's  name is inappropriate.