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For words that were formed as acronyms, or not, backronyms are explanations, mostly apocryphal or suspicious, that are created well after the word is in common use. Some are memory mnemonics, used to prompt the recall of words beginning with those letters. Examples: * SOS - Save Our Ship, Suspend Other Services * S.H.I.T. - For the transport of manure by ship, shipments would be labeled "Store High In Transit" to avoid methane explosions. * Golf - "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden" * POSH - "Port out, Starboard Home" (preferred, shaded cabin locations on cruise ships)
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Why do some experts consider the term spool a backronym?
The term SPOOL was used simply because of it's function. Later on, the acronym was added to it. Thus, SPOOL is a backronym - as the acronym was added to merely fit the already-used term.
What is the opposite of an acronym?
It is backronym. The opposite of acronym....!!!!! Or more appropriately use the terms expansion and long-form for opposites. =]
What is meaning of php?
It was originally an acronym for Personal Home Page but is now a recursive "backronym" for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Which is a name written backward and used as pseudonym?
Which is a name written backward and used as pseudonym?
What is it called when you take a word and make each letter in it mean something?
It's either an acronym or backronym depending on what you mean. Acronym is when you get "FBI" from "Federal Bureau of Intelligence" Backronym is when you get "Friendly Bee Incorporated" from "FBI" If you mean what it's called when you take an existing word and give every letter a meaning, then I don't think there is a term for that.
What does lg stand for besides lifes good?
The LG companies marketing logo is LG: Life's good. The slogan is actually a backronym. The LG of the compnany refers to the former name, Lucky Goldstar.
Who are the creators of Yahoo?
Originally known as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" (contrary to the commonly quoted backronym "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle"), the creaters of Yahoo! are Jerry Yang and David Filo.
I am looking for the opposite of an acronym. What is it called when you take a word and make a phrase from it's letters each letter is the first letter of the words in the phrase?
I believe it is called a backronym. acronymThe word you're looking for might also be mnemonic.
When and who developed the basic of visual basic?
BASIC is an acronym (not a backronym) for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was designed in 1964 at Dartmouth College by John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz to allow non-science students to have access to computers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_programming_language for more information.
Dose Bible stand for basic instructions before leaving earth?
No. That meaning is known as a "backronym" or an acronym invented after the word itself was used. The word Bible is derived from the Latin word biblio which simply means 'book'.Other such backronyms include: FAITH, Fantastic-Adventures-In-Trusting-Him or FEAR, False-Evidence-Appearing-Real or GRACE, God's-Riches-At-Christ's-Expense
The full form of computer is commonly opperate machine purposely used for training education and research?
No Computors were originally people, usually women who did lots of simple mathematical operations or computations, for businesses or universities, before electronic calculators were invented. When the first electronic mathematical machines were invented they were called computers for short as they did the same job as the workers they later replaced. What you have said is a backronym that came later.
What do the letters s o s stand for?
Despite being associated with phrases such as "Save Our Seamen", "Save our Ship", "Survivors On Shore" or "Save Our Souls" S O S doesn't stand for anything. These were a later development, most likely used to help remember the correct letters (something known as a backronym) It is a distress signal used on both land and sea . It stands for Save Our Soles.
