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by dwattttt 16 days ago
And today I learned this has a name, anacronym! An acronym that has become so common, it's treated as a word instead of an acronym.
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And to be really pedantic about it, an acronym is pronounceable, like "NASA", so BPF is actually an initialism!
An initialism, yet now an aninitialism.