[Ads-l] A bacronym named Steve

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:

> 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?
>

That's pretty sad. If you're going to backronymize, you can't just pick and
choose letters like that.

One of my favorites is PASADENA, the OED's content management
system: "Perfect All-Singing All-Dancing Editorial and Notation
Application."

--bgz

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