Today's interesting word

[George K]

Anacronym.

An anacronym is an acronym which has been used to commonly that it becomes a word on its own.

Ex:

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Zone Improvement Plan
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

[Klaus]

@George-K said in Today's interesting word:

An anacronym is an acronym ...

I'm glad that "anacronym" is an anacronym.

[Mik]

I ️ Anacronyms

[89th]

I've also heard of backronyms, which is where a company or organization makes up a title to fit into a cool acronym. I guess WTF (Well Tempered Forum) is a good example.

[George K]

@89th said in Today's interesting word:

I've also heard of backronyms, which is where a company or organization makes up a title to fit into a cool acronym. I guess WTF (Well Tempered Forum) is a good example.

The gummint is genius at that.

See "CARES" and "HEROES" acts.

[jon-nyc]

@89th said in Today's interesting word:

I've also heard of backronyms, which is where a company or organization makes up a title to fit into a cool acronym. I guess WTF (Well Tempered Forum) is a good example.

My coinage, by the way.

[89th]

Ha cool! Rolling in the royalties, I presume?

[Horace]

jon do you have reason to believe that your independent invention of the word is where widespread usage sprouted from?

[jon-nyc]

Well-tempered forum was mine.

I should have removed the bold on backronym.

[Mik]

Little did you know how prophetic you were.