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# Eh?
What?
(Northern Lovely, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:36, archived)
# A "Backronymn"!
Where someone takes a real word and makes it into an acronym.
(I helped save b3ta! coder.keitaro I like pies!, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:38, archived)
# i'm sure
that phrase was made up by americans who didn't know what the proper word for it was

dictionary.reference.com/search?q=acrostic
(I helped save b3ta! Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:41, archived)
# Maybe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym

However the backronym is the word itself and not the phrase or poem that makes it.

The phrase itself is acrostic.
But what of it's plaintext output?

/EDIT: dictionary.reference.com/search?q=backronym
(I helped save b3ta! coder.keitaro I like pies!, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:53, archived)
# you see
you've made "Macintosh" into an acronym, when it wasn't an acroynm. That's something else. Acrostic i think.
(I helped save b3ta! Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:39, archived)
# Shhhhh
Don't blind people with my genius!
(Northern Lovely, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:42, archived)
# sorry
it's a clever use of words there.
woo.
(I helped save b3ta! Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:47, archived)
# yeah, but most of the entries
are abbreviations not acronyms anyway.

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:42, archived)
# An acronym
is the intital letters or parts of words which make another word.

Like LASER, RADAR or WASP.

An acrostic is a poem, the first letter of each line makes words(s).

ATM, NSFW etc. are not technically acronyms as they do not make pronounceable words. But I can't remember what that's called, possibly just an abbreviation.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:43, archived)
# An acronym
doesn't have to make another word.

That is just lies and superstition.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:50, archived)
# and the dictionary definition
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=acronym

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:52, archived)
# but dictionary.com can be made to argue against itself
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tla
(I helped save b3ta! Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:57, archived)
# FUCK
wasn't an acronym.


But lots of stupid people think it was.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:40, archived)
# That's my point
Macintosh wasn't an acronym. (is happy to be proved wrong)
(I helped save b3ta! Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:42, archived)
# No, it wasn't
A McIntosh is a kind of apple, hence the name.
(Northern Lovely, Fri 12 Aug 2005, 14:43, archived)