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# I've never made up words in the title.
But I have used awful puns.

And I know for a fact that there are several degree programmes and government or EU-funded projects that got their titles because of the need for a good acronym.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:35, archived)
# I'm going to write a paper titled
"Cosmological Unity and the Next Telescopic Surveys", which will be about the need for cosmologists to carefully plan future ground-based surveys to maximise the useful data we can recover from them without all the fractious bickering and girlish arguments that normally split these efforts apart.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:38, archived)
# I and a couple of colleagues once spent the best part of a day
trying to design a Masters course that'd fit around the acronym WEASEL.


We failed. But we did get a pub quiz team name.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:40, archived)
# And that's all that matters.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:43, archived)
# I believe you've been pipped, although inadvertently
www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/09/nanotube_acronyms/
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:40, archived)
# oh yeah i remember that
different field. i'll get away with it :)

I'd make one around "wankers" but that K is a killer.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:43, archived)
# Keratin
probably
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:45, archived)
# Not much use in cosmology, alas
"Killing" would work but has to be followed by "vector" or "tensor". "Kretschmann" would work but has to be followed by "scalar", "curvature" or "invariant". (Actually I'm buggerd if I know what the Kretschmann scalar for cosmology is. Quite possibly it's even zero.) There's a stupid theory called Kruskaton cosmology but I think may actually be spelled Cruscaton.



Edit: Hmmm. Waves, Anisotropies and Null-surfaces in Kundt-Einstein Riemannian Spacetimes. That one *almost* works and gives us an added "Kundt" in the title, but it's damn near meaningless.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:47, archived)
# Klingon?
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:01, archived)
# Hmmmm not a bad idea
I might email Katherine Freese and suggest a follow-up to the Cardassian model. They called it that because it "takes over the universe" and ends up dominating all other matter. Perhaps something that starts to take over the universe but then settles down would be a Klingon model.

This has legs.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:05, archived)
# I EXPECT TO BE CREDITED
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:15, archived)
# You shall be in the acknowledgements
"The authors wish to thank Griffy Savalas for useful and constructive discussions."
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:17, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:19, archived)