[Ads-l] A bacronym named Steve

[Chris Waigl]

On a side note, I recently wondered about the limits in a different
dimension when I came across PARAMOUR, a Belgian project whose full name
is "Decadal Predictability and vAriability of polar climate: the Role of
AtMosphere- Ocean-cryosphere mUltiscale inteRactions". Does this even
still count?

Chris


On 3/21/18 7:45 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> Two proto-backronyms (as given in Dave Wilton's _Word Myths_ and elsewhere)
> are:
>
> ICHTHYS = Iesous CHristos, THeou Yios, Soter
> CABAL = Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley-Cooper, Lauderdale (high
> councillors of Charles II)
>
> As for CARE, John Algeo writes this in "The Acronym and Its Congeners"
> (LACUS Forum 1974):
> [...]
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A related question: How old is the backronym itself? 

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