As Congress tries to address the devastation brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, lawmakers are using a tried and true method to signal their concern for the country: the “backronym.” Senate ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. NASA, AIDS, ZIP code and NAFTA are examples of acronyms--words made up of the first letters of a ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. English speakers use acronyms every day: NASA, AIDS, ZIP code, and NAFTA are examples of acronyms ...
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has a flair for naming its schemes and laws creatively, often using backronyms—an acronym designed to mimic a word — like Shakti, Shanti, Poshan, ...
Examples include NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and GIF (graphics interchange format). Note that an acronym is pronounced the way the ...