2014年11月28日 · A backronym (Backward acronym or blend of back and acronym) is a term for a word which has been turned into an acronym by inventing an expansion, rather than the other way around. An example given by Wikipedia involves a backronym invented by NASA (itself an acronym - a word formed from initial letters of words and pronounced as a word - for ...

2011年12月27日 · The definition for backronym in the Oxford US Dictionary online sheds some light on the antonym for acronym: a fanciful expansion of an existing acronym or word, such as “port out, starboard home” for posh. Notice that it is "a fanciful expansion". This seems to indicate that the antonym for acronym is expansion, based on backronym's ...

2015年10月5日 · It draws, by its very nature (and geekiness), a certain fondness from computer hobbyists and is thus heavily used in naming software packages, programming concepts or algorithms. There are, however, some non-technical examples (drawn from the Wikipedia page linked above): IRIS, for Iris Recognition Immigration System

2011年11月17日 · This answer strikes me as the most likely interpretation if I were to hear the word from a teenager who likes video games. I disagree with the etymology, though. In the video game context "meta" comes from the term "metagaming", although the backronym you're quoting perfectly reflects what "meta" came to mean in the context of video games.

2014年2月24日 · Your examples fall into this category. Quite often, these words aren't written in capitals: laser, for example, tends to be written in lower case, whereas Nato is often written with just a capital N. A set of initials that doesn't create a new word, eg FBI, UN, BBC, CNN, is …

2019年3月18日 · KISS, a backronym for "keep it simple, stupid", is a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore, simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.

2014年6月12日 · I can vividly imagine a sneeze with either sound, so I find it very likely that the common onomatopoeias are reflecting that variation. Bear in mind that the Dutch and German examples that you quote are indeed incomplete, as the link form the comments shows: In Dutch, Hatsjoe!, Hatsjie! In German, Hatschi!, Hatschu!

2018年8月5日 · @HotLicks - "Swag" is a very old word, of course - I remember it as being interchangeable with "booty" in the tales of pirates and highwaymen I read as a kid - but when used in the context of "promotional giveaways", it has a backronym I …

The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive acronym/ metacronym/ recursive initialism, this is a fun way to coin names for new programming languages and such. RPM, PHP and YAML were originally conventional initialisms which were later redefined recursively.

2018年12月11日 · A backronym, or bacronym, is a constructed phrase that purports to be the source of a word that is an acronym. (source: Wikipedia ) They give the AMBER Alert as an example; it was named after a girl whose name was Amber, but constructed the phrase "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response" to fit the abbreviation.