acronym for

[Arnold Zwicky]

from Michael Quinion's World Wide Words #645  6/27/09:

   Gavan O'Connor was reading a review of an exhibition on Pompeii at
the Melbourne Museum in the July 2009 edition of Royal Auto, the
magazine of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, when he came
across this sentence: "Pompeii is also an acronym for sentient
death in its most tormented form."

as so often happens with incorrect word choices, the word that's
actually used blocks me from retrieving the word that *should* have
been used.  well, i'd probably have used "a symbol", but that's not
even close to "acronym" phonologically.  "icon"?

(POMPEII - I MOP PIE, by the way)

arnold

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