Tea a retronym

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Thu Sep 16 11:28:27 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:23:58AM -0400, David Barnhart wrote:
> Is the _tea_ in _tea party_ being ascribed to "tax enough already" a
> retronym?

No, but it's a backronym.

Jesse Sheidlower
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