Most unfortunate acronym?
Most unfortunate acronym?
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Esceptico

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8,897 posts

138 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Was just watching a short satirical piece on YouTube about the Australian government’s policy on EVs called “Future Fuel Strategy”…or FFS for short. Mmm. Doesn’t that acronym already exist?

Any other unfortunate or not well thought out acronyms?

(Although having heard what they are planning…or rather not planning to do about EVs then FFS sounds about right)

RDMcG

20,842 posts

236 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Well the AARP is the American Association for Retired Persons, fair enough..

For Canada the Canadian Association of Retired Persons. ( I do not kid you), is of course CARP.

Do not get me started on the Canadian Opera Company .....

tdm34

7,495 posts

239 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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In 1984 Honda launched the NS400R and like all high performance two strokes of the time it had a power valve system called
A.T.A.C. stood for Auto Torque Amplification Control. Well apparently they were going to call it
Honda Experimental Research Power Exhaust System.

This was told to me by a Honda Service rep many many moons ago.

MB140

5,045 posts

132 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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I used to work in a section called software support team, they decided they wanted to rebrand it just to software support.

All the new headed paper everything, signs the lot, all turned up with SS on them. Made even worse as this was on a military base. Answering the phone ‘good morning Sgt xyz, SS how can we help got some funny coughs down the phone. Needless to say we were quickly rebranded back to, yes you guessed it software support team.

I imagine some officer got promoted out of that one.

Condi

20,321 posts

200 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Coventry University Netball Team

NMNeil

5,860 posts

79 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

PERA
Public Employees Retirement Association (My police pension)


anonymous-user

83 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Committee (for the) Liberation (and) Integration (of) Terrifying Organisms (and their) Rehabilitation Into Society?

djcube

545 posts

99 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Subaru has (an) STI......

x5tuu

12,780 posts

216 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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My initials are STD

Within the NHS there was a plan for a Sunderland Health Information Team which got canned at the very last stages before implementation when the board twigged

I delivered a role for a client and on my works badge they couldn’t think of / decide on a role / title so went with the contractual terms … Contractor Under Nominal Terms

Edited by x5tuu on Wednesday 2nd March 07:25

GitsNovelties

53 posts

56 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Might be an apocryphal tale but I heard Newcastle Poly was rebranding itself as City University Newcastle Upon Tyne and didn't twig until they had some t-shirts and stationary printed up and rapidly threw threw them out, changing course to settle on Northumbria University.

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

225 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Renault F4RT engine.

The Mad Monk

11,452 posts

146 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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The examples quoted so far are not acronyms, they are abbreviations.

An acronym is a set of abbreviations which can be, and is, pronounced as a word.

e.g. NAAFI, RADAR and so on.

Definition according to Google:-
acronym
/ˈakrənɪm/
Learn to pronounce
noun
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA ).

I hope this helps.

anonymous-user

83 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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The Mad Monk said:
The examples quoted so far are not acronyms, they are abbreviations.

An acronym is a set of abbreviations which can be, and is, pronounced as a word.

e.g. NAAFI, RADAR and so on.

Definition according to Google:-
acronym
/?akr?n?m/
Learn to pronounce
noun
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA ).

I hope this helps.
Mine is definitely an acronym hehe

john2443

6,541 posts

240 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Tube Investments Transport Services

2 that I assume were deliberate Six Hands in Tempo (3 guys with guitar, banjo, mandolin etc) Sweet Honey In The Rock (US acapella group)


shouldbworking

4,801 posts

241 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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ISIS - one of the key systems in codifying military equipment across NATO. had to have a swift rebrand around the time the whole islamic state thing took off.

vikingaero

13,230 posts

198 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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I like IANAL, especially when girls use it. biggrin

psi310398

11,035 posts

232 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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I’m rather taken with the newly minted ttS for those who WFH on Mondays and Fridays…

Jefferson Steelflex

1,607 posts

128 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Newarch said:
Committee (for the) Liberation (and) Integration (of) Terrifying Organisms (and their) Rehabilitation Into Society?
I was about to come on to this thread and use this classic Red Dwarf line myself. I preferred the major leaflet campaign as a first tactic though.

PomBstard

7,869 posts

271 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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GitsNovelties said:
Might be an apocryphal tale but I heard Newcastle Poly was rebranding itself as City University Newcastle Upon Tyne and didn't twig until they had some t-shirts and stationary printed up and rapidly threw threw them out, changing course to settle on Northumbria University.
A friend was at Newcastle Poly at this time, and this was indeed doing the rounds. Whether it was a formal idea or just high jinks from those malarky-loving students, I'm not sure.

In a similar tone, although not an abbreviation, there is the unofficial tourist slogan for Northern Territory - C U in the N T. Yes, you can buy the t-shirt...

Stay classy, Straya!

Jader1973

5,125 posts

229 months

Wednesday 2nd March 2022
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Assistant Reactor Services Engineer.

Was on the sign on the office door smile