Backronyms, like Podcast & SOS
What's Podcast stand for? Personal On Demand Broadcast?
How about SOS? Save Our Ship?
NO NO NO! These are Backronyms!
Podcast is created from the words iPOD and broadCAST.
SOS was simply chosen as a distress signal as it's easily recognized in Morse Code
What's a Backronym? From Wikipedia:
A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that is constructed to match the letters of an actual word appropriate in some fashion to the topic at hand. The word "backronym" is a blend of back and acronym and was coined in 1983.An acronym is a word created from the initial letters of a phrase: Random Access Memory becomes R.A.M.. Some authorities distinguish between acronyms and initialisms, using the term acronym only when the use of initials has been assimilated and the initials are pronounced as if they were letters of an actual word, for example RAM.
See the full Wikipedia definition.
This one definitely made me laugh out loud!
How about SOS? Save Our Ship?
NO NO NO! These are Backronyms!
Podcast is created from the words iPOD and broadCAST.
SOS was simply chosen as a distress signal as it's easily recognized in Morse Code
What's a Backronym? From Wikipedia:
A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that is constructed to match the letters of an actual word appropriate in some fashion to the topic at hand. The word "backronym" is a blend of back and acronym and was coined in 1983.An acronym is a word created from the initial letters of a phrase: Random Access Memory becomes R.A.M.. Some authorities distinguish between acronyms and initialisms, using the term acronym only when the use of initials has been assimilated and the initials are pronounced as if they were letters of an actual word, for example RAM.
See the full Wikipedia definition.
This one definitely made me laugh out loud!
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 11:02 PM
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