This morning I learned from my cousin about backronyms. I had never heard the word “backronym” before today, but I realize that I’ve been making them for years.
Backronyms are cleverly knitted redefinitions, often noteworthy yet manufactured.
When a word that wasn’t an acronym becomes an acronym, it’s because somebody turned it into a backronym. And now that I know what they are called, I am definitely going to keep making them.