A bacronym or backronym is a phrase constructed purposely such that an acronym can be formed to a specific desired word.

However, one of its original authors, Laurence Lundblade, insists this was never the case and that it started off simply as a word and not an acronym, and that his first choice of a backronym for pine would be " Pine Is Nearly Elm ".

* apronym: a word, which as an acronym or backronym, has a meaning related to the meaning of the words constituting the acronym or backronym ; such as PLATO for " Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching " alluding to Plato, the philosopher and teacher

According to early Commodore myth, and reported by writer / programmer Jim Butterfield among others, the " word " KERNAL is an acronym ( or maybe more likely, a backronym ) standing for Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link, which in fact makes good sense considering its role.

Since the transliteration IHS gave rise to the backronym Iesus Hominum Salvator ( Latin for " Jesus, savior of men "), it is plausible that JHC similarly led to Jesus Harold Christ, Harold coming from the mispronunciation of the word " hallowed " of the Lord's Prayer: " Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name.

The word is believed by some to have originated as an acronym for " Keep Your Bowels Open " although this may be a backronym.

Scram is usually cited as being an acronym for safety control rod axe man ; however, the term is probably a backronym.

There are several explanations for the USSR code-name of RDS-1, usually an arbitrary designation: a backronym " Special Jet Engine " (, Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Specialnyi ), or " Stalin's Jet Engine " (, Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina ), or " Russia does it herself " (, Rossiya Delayet Sama ).

The acronym is tied to the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz and is not a backronym.

Euphoria is an acronym for " End-User Programming with Hierarchical Objects for Robust Interpreted Applications " although there is some suspicion that this is a backronym.

It has been suggested that wharf actually is an acronym for ware-house at river front, but it is actually a backronym created by Thames river boat guides.

A recursive acronym ( synonymous with metacronym, recursive initialism, and recursive backronym ) is an initialism that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands.

* contrasted with the more academic tending formal hierarchies, the " So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup " FAQ jokes that the name " alt " is an acronym for " anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists ", though this is actually just a humorous backronym.

The use of the acronym evolved later ( see backronym ).

It is also sometimes given as an acronym standing for Please Log Off, Net Kook, though this is likely a backronym.

PAVE has also been defined as an acronym for Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry, but that is likely a backronym created to explain the program name.

It has been claimed that Foo came from the acronym for Forward Observation Officer, but this is likely to be a backronym.

Later, Terry McKiever, a marketing person for Apollo, felt that it needed to be an acronym and invented the backronym Basic Large Object.

As a backronym, it is has been taken to stand for Digital Bibliography & Library Project, however it is now preferred that the acronym be simply a name, hence the new title " The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography ".

It has been suggested that the term YOMP is an acronym ( or backronym ) for ' Your Own Marching Pace '.

( Disputed: ' PIG ' is an acronym or backronym derived from the initial letters of the term ' Pipeline Inspection Gauge.

's name was a backronym for Countin ' Endless Bank, but it was also an acronym for the names of the group's three members.

On April 1, 1990, trading was moved to a new digital system: HETI ( Helsinki Stock Exchange Automated Trading and Information System, and in Finnish a rough backronym for " immediately "), which replaced the electro-mechanical trading board originally introduced back in 1935.

Numerous synonyms were used to make oblique reference to the stone, such as " white stone " ( calculus albus, identified with the calculus candidus of Revelation 2: 17 which was taken as a symbol of the glory of heaven ), vitriol ( as expressed in the backronym Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem ), also lapis noster, lapis occultus, in water at the box, and numerous oblique, mystical or mythological references such as Adam, Aer, Animal, Alkahest, Antidotus, Antimonium, Aqua benedicta, Aqua volans per aeram, Arcanum, Atramentum, Autumnus, Basilicus, Brutorum cor, Bufo, Capillus, Capistrum auri, Carbones, Cerberus, Chaos, Cinis cineris, Crocus, Dominus philosophorum, Divine quintessence, Draco elixir, Filius ignis, Fimus, Folium, Frater, Granum, Granum frumenti, Haematites, Hepar, Herba, Herbalis, Lac, Melancholia, Ovum philosophorum, Panacea salutifera, Pandora, Phoenix, Philosophic mercury, Pyrites, Radices arboris solares, Regina, Rex regum, Sal metallorum, Salvator terrenus, Talcum, Thesaurus, Ventus hermetis.

PSF initially stood only for " PlayStation Sound Format ", but with the addition of the PSF2, SSF ( Sega Saturn Sound Format ), DSF ( Dreamcast Sound Format ), USF ( Nintendo Ultra 64 Sound Format ), QSF ( Capcom Q-Sound Format ), GSF ( Game Boy Advance Sound Format ), and 2SF ( Nintendo DS Sound Format ) subformats, the more generic backronym " Portable Sound Format " was developed.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

And so the authors conclude: `` The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work, even more than the foregoing facts ( mentioned above under 1 ), leave positively no room for doubt that the sense of touch, in the ordinary sense of the word, was unaffected ; ;

( For example, " tiānqì ", literally " sky breath ", is the ordinary Chinese word for " weather ").

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

A Portuguese / English double false friend is for example the English word " ordinary " ( which has the roughly the same meaning as " normal " or " regular ") in Portuguese means " vulgar ".

It was an ordinary, hardworking, nondescript word that was used to refer to a process, any process of justice of governance, being conducted in the open.

He typically uses the ordinary word " to become " ( gignesthai or ginesthai, root sense of being born ), which led to his being characterized as the philosopher of becoming rather than of being.

The word is first recorded in 1604 in the Elgin Records as hagmonay ( delatit to haue been singand hagmonayis on Satirday ) and again in 1692 in an entry of the Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence It is ordinary among some plebeians in the South of Scotland to go about from door to door upon New-years Eve, crying Hagmane.

In Latin the word idiota (" ordinary person, layman ") preceded the Late Latin meaning " uneducated or ignorant person.

Since the word kabuki is believed to derive from the verb kabuku, meaning " to lean " or " to be out of the ordinary ", kabuki can be interpreted as " avant-garde " or " bizarre " theatre.

The ordinary word in English is " Muslim ".

" Russell uses the word class in a sense that might or might not correspond neatly to any identifiable ordinary English use of the word ; so we might say that he is not using ordinary language, but jargon.

The word Prakrit itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as " original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual ", or " vernacular ", in contrast to the literary and religious orthodoxy of Sanskrit.

The compound word " spread-sheet " came to mean the format used to present book-keeping ledgers — with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect — which were, traditionally, a " spread " across facing pages of a bound ledger ( book for keeping accounting records ) or on oversized sheets of paper ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper.

John 1: 34 – It reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός ( chosen one ) together with the manuscripts < sup > 5 </ sup >, < sup > 106 </ sup >, b, e, ff < sup > 2 </ sup >, syr < sup > c </ sup >, and syr < sup > s </ sup > instead of ordinary word υἱος ( son ).

It is often used in ordinary language to denote a problem of understanding that comes down to word selection or connotation.

The leader of a gang was called the ' jemadar ': this is an ordinary Indian word and is now used as the rank of an Army officer ( Lieutenant ), who would command a similar number of men to a Thuggee gang-leader.

The English word " monster ", ( used in the ordinary sense of a " huge animal ",) is used in the Bible in Jeremiah's Lamentations to refer to whales:

The word is also used loosely to describe more ordinary discomforts that would be accurately described as tedious rather than painful ; for example, " making this spreadsheet was torture!

* Figure of Speech, the confusion between the metaphorical or figurative use of a word or phrase and the ordinary or literal use of a word or phrase.