Colorful stories of acronyms are often false
by Melissa Mohr
Sep 05, 2022
2 minutes
English words rarely get their start as acronyms. Looking at the number of folk etymologies that explain acronymic origins, though, you might think that many common terms were stitched together from the first letters of other words. English does contain acronyms, of course, but
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