• AwesomeLowlander
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    68 months ago

    A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.

    • @ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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      18 months ago

      Also, we’d have to hear them pronounce it to know if it was an acronym or an initialism, if my understanding is correct.