The Most Powerful Special Interest in Washington: The Acronym

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Martin Kaminer wrote:
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen -- I give you the Bacronym!
>
> http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/the-most-powerful-special-interest-in-washington-the-acronym/
>
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Governmental bacronyms were also the topic of my Word Routes column
yesterday (though I choose to spell it "backronym"):

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/backronym-of-the-week-ex-patriot-act/

--bgz

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Ben Zimmer
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