A few days ago
Mark S

what is the opposite of an acronym (spelling?)?

so if i have a sentence-“blonde women really are fine” the acronym is bwraf, but lets say i have a letter sequence badecf and i make a sentence-“buffalo and deer eat colorful frogs”. what is that sentence called? (opposite of an aconym)

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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“backronym” – a meaning assigned to an acronym
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4 years ago
correia
Opposite Of Acronym
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A few days ago
Just_One_Man’s_Opinion
FIRST of all, you have confused acronyms and abbreviations. Acronyms spell things; e.g., CARE, MADD, etc. IBM is the initials for International Business Machines. IBM is NOT an acronym. IBM does not spell ANYTHING! SCUBA is an acronym, standing for Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apperatus. Nylon is NOT an acronym; it’s just a made up word. RADAR IS an acronym. And son on. Get it?

SECOND, there is no such thing as the opposite of an acronym! What would be the opposite of a series of abbreviated letters that make a word? A car? A hot meal? Flatulence?

There is a game whereby people try to make cutesy sayings and such out of the first letters in each of the words in a sentence or the letters in someone’s name, etc. But that has NOTHING to do with acronyms!

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5 years ago
Karl
The opposite of an acronym is a phrase. The phrase is compressed into an acronym, backronym, or mnemonic.
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6 years ago
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what is the opposite of an acronym (spelling?)?
so if i have a sentence-"blonde women really are fine" the acronym is bwraf, but lets say i have a letter sequence badecf and i make a sentence-"buffalo and deer eat colorful frogs". what is that sentence called? (opposite of an aconym)

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A few days ago
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Probably the closest would be a Mnemonic.

Example: how to remember the planets names from the sun.

Man very early made jars stand upright nearly perpendicular.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

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A few days ago
Experto Credo
Potentially a mnemonic, as you use the letters to trigger a way to remember something
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A few days ago
Aly Cat
synonym
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A few days ago
Graycie
… a mnemonic…?
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