Consciously created etymythology

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

Monday's Pearls Before Swine comic has a great example of a pseudo-acronym-based etymology (with an offer of a second):

http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2012/12/04

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
+1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT)

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