bad_hair_day wrote:My daughter says it’s an anacronym ‘before anyone else’.
Bob wrote:We've got to shorten babe now? Be a letter?
Fuck me we are fucking doomed as a species.
As my sales junior says.. he nose.
Bob wrote:see if you can work it out .. fuc
Andy wrote:
FYI
’Before anyone else’, like so many claimed acronyms, is more than likely a backronym.
’Ta’ dates back to the 1700s, so it definitely isn’t an acronym, which are pretty much unheard of before the 1920s.
There’s a general rule for acronyms; if you’ve heard a story that a word is an acronym, it probably isn’t.
nick_md wrote:That's me done until 4th Jan now, just had xmas lunch with the colleagues, beer in hand, out of office set. Happy days.
See, it's a slippery slope. One minute you're shortening babies, the next you're having to deal with neologisms like 'backronym'.Andy wrote:
Dark Soldier wrote:fk u i have four days off over christmasnick_md wrote:That's me done until 4th Jan now, just had xmas lunch with the colleagues, beer in hand, out of office set. Happy days.
I do, in case you’re not fine again.TheDJR wrote:Um, no but thank you. It's fine now anyway.
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