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In article ,
(ChuxGarage) wrote:

Actually, I'm told that BNC stands for "Bayonet N Connector." If you
inspect
an "N" connector, you will see that the inside closely resembles a BNC
but it
has a huge external screw on ring to secure it. The BNC uses a much
smaller
bayonet ring to secure it.

If that were true, then the TNC (the BNC's sibling) would stand for
"Threaded N Connector", which makes no sense at all, since it wouldn't
differentiate the TNC from the original N connector (and they're not even
slightly compatible).