ETA

1. “estimated time of arrival” abbreviated. sounds officious or military when spoken out loud.

2. “edited to add” abbreviated. used frequently by blogger]s when adding something to a post.

3. “euskadi ta akatasuna”, or eta (pr-nounced “eh-ta”). a paramilitary organisation based in northern spain which uses terrorism to push for basque] independence.
1. “our eta is five o’clock.”

2. “eta: i just found out that what i wrote above isn’t true.”

3. “eta were involved in a terrorist attack on the spanish parliament building in madrid.”
estimated time of arrival
a derogatory term used by the j-panese to refer to the burak-min in the feudal era. burak-min were a j-panese social minority group. the burak-min are one of the main minority groups in j-pan, along with the ainu of hokkaido, the ryukyuans of okinawa and j-panese residents of korean and chinese descent. the burak-min are descendants of outcast communities of the feudal era, which mainly comprised those with occupations considered “tainted” with death or ritual impurity (such as executioners, undertakers, workers in slaughterhouses, butchers or tanners), and traditionally lived in their own secluded hamlets and ghettos.
“no, you will not be allowed to commit seppuku. that’s an honor. you have no honor and no self-discipline. you will be crucified like a common criminal today. your swords will be broken and buried in the eta village. your son will be buried in the eta village. your head will be put on a spike for all the population to jeer at with a sign on it: ‘this man was born samurai by mistake. his name has ceased to be!’“- lord toranaga from the novel shogun by james clavell.
an abbreviation of “edited to add,” frequently used by bloggers.
eta: it’s true! he totally loved my panties.
euskadi ta askatasuna; an organization of militant basque nationalists attempting to gain independence for the basques, especially those ruled by spain, until a cease-fire in 1998, by means of guerrilla warfare.
the eta was organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain’s western pyrenees; “in 1968 eta launched a campaign of political -ss-ssinations of government officials.”
“euskadi ta askatasuna ” (euskadi and liberty)

eta is a basque (spain) terrorism organization that want to create on independent homeland in spain’s western pyrenees

eta is also 7th letter of the greek alphabet n_n
-two guards die in eta bomb blast
-a spanish judge banned the political wing of the basque separatist group eta from spanish politics for the next three years while the party is investigated for alleged criminal links to eta

-alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta…and so forth
emergency toast allocation
hey man, it’s 9am and i’m starving. what’s your eta?

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