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A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is back-formation from a previously existing abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym. The term is sometimes used to refer to the initialism or acronym itself,but usually in those cases, it is a "#Replacement" backronym, the abbreviation already having an associated phrase. When the backronym phrase becomes more popular than the original, the word becomes an anacronym.But other than that, backronyms and anacronyms have little to do with each other.

The word backronym is a neologism, coined in 1983.

An example of a backronym from the word acronym is as follows. Acronyms Condense Representations Of Neologisms You Memorize In this example, because the word acronym itself is not an acronym, the phrase above is a #Pure backronym, not a #Replacement backronym. Since the phrase indirectly refers to the word itself, it is also #Apronymic. Also, because the word acronym itself appears in its backronym, the phrase is also a #Recursive-backronym. If this backronym helps you remember the word acronym or backronym, then it is also a #Mnemonic.

Backronym versus acronym An acronym is a pronounceable word created from the initial letters of a phrase: The word radar comes from "Radio Detection and Ranging". Letters from the originating phrase are used to construct a pronounceable word. By contrast, a backronym is constructed by starting with a word (or an initialism) and, beginning with the first letter, using each letter to form the next word of the phrase. The word then becomes an acronym or initialism of the newly formed phrase. In this sense, a backronym is the reversal of an acronym.

Since an acronym is defined as a word, and backronym is constructed from an acronym, it logically follows that the phrase must come from a word. However, this rule is commonly broken, even by dictionaries providing examples such as DVD (an initialism, see image) and SOS (a representation of the emergency signal used in Morse code).

Types Backronyms can be classified along various types. Note that these types are not all exclusive of each other, that is, a backronym can be mnemonic, pure, and recursive. However, a backronym cannot be both pure and replacement.

Pure A pure backronym occurs when the root word was not previously or commonly known as an acronym or abbreviation. Examples: Since its application to consumer generated media, some have suggested that "wiki" means "What I Know Is". Fletcher Brothers in "The Rock Report", 1987 cites a January 1980 American Photographer but the author tongue-in-cheekly suggests the backronym "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister".


Sometimes the backronym is so commonly heard, that it is generally but incorrectly believed to have been used in the formation of the word. Examples of these include: ; published in the US as The International Wireless Telegraph Convention makes no mention that it stands for "save our ship", "save our souls", or "send out succour".

group became LG and is now branded as "Life's Good".

Replacement Some backronyms are back-formation from an initialism or acronym that is an abbreviation with another meaning. For example,

IBM is also sometimes known as "I've been meeting". "Specially Prepared American Meat", or "Spare Parts After Mutilation". After the word "spam" became associated with unsolicited commercial email (UCE), it became jokingly referred to as "Self-Propelled Automated Mailings" or "Stupid, Pointless, Annoying Messages". In Esperanto the word spamo is used with the same meaning and has been reinterpreted as "SenPete Alsendita Mesaĝo", that is, "message sent to someone without being asked for".

Apronym Many backronyms are apronyms, that is, the word itself is relevant to its associated phrase.The relevance may be either serious or ironic. Many jocular (and often also derogatory) apronyms are created as a form of wordplay. Examples of this certainly include those of the self-referential variety: In fact, most of the examples cited in the following sections would also count as apronyms.

Mnemonic Backronyms are typically constructed for educational purposes, to form mnemonics so that the word or initialism is easier to remember. For instance, when learning to read sheet music, students often learn Every Good Boy Does Fine (US), Every Good Boy Deserves Fun (US), Every Good Boy Deserves (Favour|Fruit|Fudge|Football|Fun) (UK/Canada) or Every Green Bus Drives Fast (UK) to help remember that these notes (E, G, B, D, and F) are "on the lines". Another example, also applied in music, is FACE, referring to the "space" notes F, A, C, E.Another example is Go Down And Eat Breakfast|Banana and Fat Boys Eat All Day for the names of the major keys. G Major has one sharp as its key signature; D Major has two, and so on. The order of Sharps in those keys is also recalled via "Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle". F Major has one flat as its key signature, B-flat major has two, etc. This also works in reverse for the order of flats: "Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father". In Finland, there is the backronym "Esko Aho Diggaa Golfista, Halonen Ei" (Esko Aho digs golf, Halonen doesn't) to help children remember the strings of a guitar in order (E, A, D, G, H/B, E). In Dutch, the corresponding backronym is "Een Aap Die Geen Bananen Eet" (A monkey that does not eat bananas). The US version is "Elvis Ate Dynamite Good Bye Elvis".

Another example is the Apgar score, used to assess the health of newborn children. The rating system is named after Virginia Apgar, but ten years after the initial publication, the acronym APGAR was coined in the US as a mnemonic learning aid: Appearance (skin color), Pulse (heart rate), Grimace (reflex irritability), Activity (muscle tone), and Respiration.

is an example of an anacronymed backronym. What started as Digital Video Disc was later changed to Digital Versatile Disc

In stellar classification the backronym Oh, Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss Me, and a number of variations, are used to remember the order of star classes, from bluest to reddest.

Anacronym Some backronyms are #Replacement of other phrases that have become obsolete, either for technological, political or marketing reasons. The result is an anacronym. For example,







False While not necessarily a type, many backronyms are falsely believed to come from an acronym or initialism that means something else. Unlike anacronyms, these original meanings still hold. Examples include:

|title=Muhummed, The Natural Successor to Christ|author=Ahmed Deedat|date=date unknown--> is not, as often stated, an English acronym for "Rest in Peace". (RPG has also recently come to be used for role-playing game.) nor for "After Christ, the Devil Comes". It actually stands for the electrical terms, "Alternating Current" and "Direct Current". The founders of the hard rock band, AC/DC, (Angus Young and Malcolm Young) saw the letters on the back of a sewing machine, and thought that a reference to electricity suited their energetic style. The name caused some confusion among Americans because AC/DC (disambiguation) was a common euphemism for bisexuality. however there is no mention of this relation in dictionary entries.-->

Recursive Some backronyms are formed recursive acronymly.Perhaps the most famous of these is GNU, the open source software project, which stands for GNU's Not Unix. Later software projects also adopted recursive names, including: Note, however, that PINE now officially stands for "Program for Internet News & E-mail". Possibly the earliest example of a recursive backronym comes from Douglas Hofstadter's book Godel Escher Bach, in which a genie explains to Achilles that GOD stands for GOD Over Djinn, remarking that "GOD can never be fully expanded." In the German translation it is rendered as "ZEUS ewig ueber Dschinn", meaning "Zeus eternally over Djinn".

See also

External links

References

A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is back-formation from a previously existing abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym. The term is sometimes used to refer to the initialism or acronym itself,but usually in those cases, it is a "#Replacement" backronym, the abbreviation already having an associated phrase. When the backronym phrase becomes more popular than the original, the word becomes an anacronym.But other than that, backronyms and anacronyms have little to do with each other.

The word backronym is a neologism, coined in 1983.

An example of a backronym from the word acronym is as follows. Acronyms Condense Representations Of Neologisms You Memorize In this example, because the word acronym itself is not an acronym, the phrase above is a #Pure backronym, not a #Replacement backronym. Since the phrase indirectly refers to the word itself, it is also #Apronymic. Also, because the word acronym itself appears in its backronym, the phrase is also a #Recursive-backronym. If this backronym helps you remember the word acronym or backronym, then it is also a #Mnemonic.

Backronym versus acronym An acronym is a pronounceable word created from the initial letters of a phrase: The word radar comes from "Radio Detection and Ranging". Letters from the originating phrase are used to construct a pronounceable word. By contrast, a backronym is constructed by starting with a word (or an initialism) and, beginning with the first letter, using each letter to form the next word of the phrase. The word then becomes an acronym or initialism of the newly formed phrase. In this sense, a backronym is the reversal of an acronym.

Since an acronym is defined as a word, and backronym is constructed from an acronym, it logically follows that the phrase must come from a word. However, this rule is commonly broken, even by dictionaries providing examples such as DVD (an initialism, see image) and SOS (a representation of the emergency signal used in Morse code).

Types Backronyms can be classified along various types. Note that these types are not all exclusive of each other, that is, a backronym can be mnemonic, pure, and recursive. However, a backronym cannot be both pure and replacement.

Pure A pure backronym occurs when the root word was not previously or commonly known as an acronym or abbreviation. Examples: Since its application to consumer generated media, some have suggested that "wiki" means "What I Know Is". Fletcher Brothers in "The Rock Report", 1987 cites a January 1980 American Photographer but the author tongue-in-cheekly suggests the backronym "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister".


Sometimes the backronym is so commonly heard, that it is generally but incorrectly believed to have been used in the formation of the word. Examples of these include: ; published in the US as The International Wireless Telegraph Convention makes no mention that it stands for "save our ship", "save our souls", or "send out succour".

group became LG and is now branded as "Life's Good".

Replacement Some backronyms are back-formation from an initialism or acronym that is an abbreviation with another meaning. For example,

IBM is also sometimes known as "I've been meeting". "Specially Prepared American Meat", or "Spare Parts After Mutilation". After the word "spam" became associated with unsolicited commercial email (UCE), it became jokingly referred to as "Self-Propelled Automated Mailings" or "Stupid, Pointless, Annoying Messages". In Esperanto the word spamo is used with the same meaning and has been reinterpreted as "SenPete Alsendita Mesaĝo", that is, "message sent to someone without being asked for".

Apronym Many backronyms are apronyms, that is, the word itself is relevant to its associated phrase.The relevance may be either serious or ironic. Many jocular (and often also derogatory) apronyms are created as a form of wordplay. Examples of this certainly include those of the self-referential variety: In fact, most of the examples cited in the following sections would also count as apronyms.

Mnemonic Backronyms are typically constructed for educational purposes, to form mnemonics so that the word or initialism is easier to remember. For instance, when learning to read sheet music, students often learn Every Good Boy Does Fine (US), Every Good Boy Deserves Fun (US), Every Good Boy Deserves (Favour|Fruit|Fudge|Football|Fun) (UK/Canada) or Every Green Bus Drives Fast (UK) to help remember that these notes (E, G, B, D, and F) are "on the lines". Another example, also applied in music, is FACE, referring to the "space" notes F, A, C, E.Another example is Go Down And Eat Breakfast|Banana and Fat Boys Eat All Day for the names of the major keys. G Major has one sharp as its key signature; D Major has two, and so on. The order of Sharps in those keys is also recalled via "Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle". F Major has one flat as its key signature, B-flat major has two, etc. This also works in reverse for the order of flats: "Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father". In Finland, there is the backronym "Esko Aho Diggaa Golfista, Halonen Ei" (Esko Aho digs golf, Halonen doesn't) to help children remember the strings of a guitar in order (E, A, D, G, H/B, E). In Dutch, the corresponding backronym is "Een Aap Die Geen Bananen Eet" (A monkey that does not eat bananas). The US version is "Elvis Ate Dynamite Good Bye Elvis".

Another example is the Apgar score, used to assess the health of newborn children. The rating system is named after Virginia Apgar, but ten years after the initial publication, the acronym APGAR was coined in the US as a mnemonic learning aid: Appearance (skin color), Pulse (heart rate), Grimace (reflex irritability), Activity (muscle tone), and Respiration.

is an example of an anacronymed backronym. What started as Digital Video Disc was later changed to Digital Versatile Disc

In stellar classification the backronym Oh, Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss Me, and a number of variations, are used to remember the order of star classes, from bluest to reddest.

Anacronym Some backronyms are #Replacement of other phrases that have become obsolete, either for technological, political or marketing reasons. The result is an anacronym. For example,







False While not necessarily a type, many backronyms are falsely believed to come from an acronym or initialism that means something else. Unlike anacronyms, these original meanings still hold. Examples include:

|title=Muhummed, The Natural Successor to Christ|author=Ahmed Deedat|date=date unknown--> is not, as often stated, an English acronym for "Rest in Peace". (RPG has also recently come to be used for role-playing game.) nor for "After Christ, the Devil Comes". It actually stands for the electrical terms, "Alternating Current" and "Direct Current". The founders of the hard rock band, AC/DC, (Angus Young and Malcolm Young) saw the letters on the back of a sewing machine, and thought that a reference to electricity suited their energetic style. The name caused some confusion among Americans because AC/DC (disambiguation) was a common euphemism for bisexuality. however there is no mention of this relation in dictionary entries.-->

Recursive Some backronyms are formed recursive acronymly.Perhaps the most famous of these is GNU, the open source software project, which stands for GNU's Not Unix. Later software projects also adopted recursive names, including: Note, however, that PINE now officially stands for "Program for Internet News & E-mail". Possibly the earliest example of a recursive backronym comes from Douglas Hofstadter's book Godel Escher Bach, in which a genie explains to Achilles that GOD stands for GOD Over Djinn, remarking that "GOD can never be fully expanded." In the German translation it is rendered as "ZEUS ewig ueber Dschinn", meaning "Zeus eternally over Djinn".

See also

External links

References



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backronym < jargon > (Backward acronym) A word which has been turned into an acronym by inventing an expansion, rather than the other way around.

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backronym: n. [portmanteau of back + acronym] A word interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended. This is a special case of what linguists call back ...

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backronym n. [portmanteau of back + acronym] A word interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended. This is a special case of what linguists call `back ...

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backronym An acronym that has been given new words for the same letters and is created when an acronym no longer stands for its original meaning

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