acronym for

Sat Jun 27 14:09:09 UTC 2009

Synonym?

Charlie Cunningham
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From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Arnold Zwicky
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 9:31 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: acronym for

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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