What do you call these?

[Mojooo]

This is driving me insane, because I know but cannot recall, nor get a google result telling me.

Say you take a word like

C
A
R

and then you give each letter a word to go with it

Cars
Are
Rubbish

What do you call those?

[TheEnd]

Backronym

It's an acronym worked backwards, like ODEON, Golf and Posh.
All of which are also made up.

[eharding]

Mojooo said:

This is driving me insane, because I know but cannot recall, nor get a google result telling me.

Say you take a word like

C
A
R

and then you give each letter a word to go with it

Cars
Are
Rubbish

What do you call those?

Um....Fords?

[Digger]

Acronym?

[robinhood21]

A Citroen.

[eharding]

robinhood21 said:

A Citroen.

Your forum kung-fu is weak, old man.

[Mojooo]

I though an acronym is when you take somehting like British Broadcasting Corporation and then just shorten it to BBC, Which is slightly different from this because you are not shorterning anything.

Likewise, i thought it was different from a backronym

[Opel-GT]

First letter mnemonics

[Catz]

Opel-GT said:

First letter mnemonics

Agreed.

[OnTheOverrun]

BAHN-STORMA said:

No, that's just an abreviation.

No, that's an initialism.

BAHN-STORMA said:

let's not get into the initialism and alphabetism debate!

Oh, OK. You should've said that before I posted the bit above!

[ih8thisname]

An Acrostic (sp??) Poem?