reverse acronyming

[Ellen Johnson]

Hello everyone, I'm back from a long hiatus from the list, attempting to
simplify my life.  Guess that means I'm ready to complicate it a bit
with more email now, or maybe just that I've missed y'all.  anyway, I
have a question:

what do you call a phrase that is made-up from the letters of a word,
sometimes as a folk etymology?  a student wrote as an example of acronym
TEAM, Together Everyone Achieves More.  Is there a name for this?

thanks, Ellen

Ellen Johnson
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Dept. of English, Rhetoric, and Writing
Berry College, Box 350
Mt. Berry, GA 30149
706-368-5638
http://fsweb.berry.edu/academic/hass/ejohnson/
ejohnson at berry.edu