[Ads-l] Acronym of the year? CBS / WBS / IWBTG

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Apr 2 14:05:44 UTC 2017


Just your standard garden-variety backronym, no worse than the PATRIOT act (officially the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”.  

LH

> On Apr 2, 2017, at 10:00 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> More contortionym than acronym.
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