As Congress tries to address the devastation brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, lawmakers are using a tried and true method to signal their concern for the country: the “backronym.” Senate ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. NASA, AIDS, ZIP code and NAFTA are examples of acronyms--words made up of the first letters of a ...

A recursive acronym is an acronym (or occasionally, a backronym) which refers to itself in the expression for which it stands, similar to a recursive abbreviation. Though, because of their lack of a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. English speakers use acronyms every day: NASA, AIDS, ZIP code, and NAFTA are examples of acronyms ...

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has a flair for naming its schemes and laws creatively, often using backronyms—an acronym designed to mimic a word — like Shakti, Shanti, Poshan, ...