reverse acronym

Drew Danielson andrew.danielson at CMU.EDU
Fri Nov 2 18:29:20 UTC 2001


Mark.Mandel at LHSL.COM wrote:
>
> ghItlh *Dan Goodman*:
>
> >>>>>
> One term is "mynorca".
> <<<<<
>
> Then a "majorka" should be, lessee, pronouncing "NATO" as "En Ay Tee Oh"?


then, by futher reversal, would the following example constitute an
"acrojam"?

CBC = {
        Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
        Complete Blood Count |
        California Baton Council |
        Calvary Baptist Church |
        Calvary Bible Church |
        Canadian Bible College |
        Canadian Born Chinese |
        Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative (Oakland, CA) |
        Can't Be Called |
        Capital Blue Cross |
        Capital Budget Committee |
        Carbon County Railway Company [!!!] |
        Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (Barbados) |
        Caught By Cat |
        Cell Broadcast Center |
        Central Buying Consortium (Local Authority buying group; United
Kingdom) |
        Certificate in Business Computing |
        Chalmers Ballong Corps |
        Changing Behavior through Choice |
        Childfree By Choice |
        Chipped Bone Collar (Everquest game reference) |
        Cipher Block Chaining |
        Citizens for Better Care |
        Columbia Basin College (Pasco, WA)  |
        Combined BMEWS Conference |
        Commercial Banking Centre |
        Common Booster Core (missile technology) |
        Construction Battalion Center (Navy) |
        Coordinated Bargaining Committee |
        Copyright Board of Canada |
        Corporate Business Council |
        Coulter Blood Count |
        Crossborder Capital
        }

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=off&Acronym=CBC

Mark.Mandel at LHSL.COM wrote:
>
> ghItlh *Dan Goodman*:
>
> >>>>>
> One term is "mynorca".
> <<<<<
>
> Then a "majorka" should be, lessee, pronouncing "NATO" as "En Ay Tee Oh"?
>
>                   Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist
>  Dragon Systems, a Lernout & Hauspie company : speech recognition
>  320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02460, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com

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