A Pertinent Re-interpretation Of Normality Yielding More Sense
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| 100% | ABBREVIATIONS | A Bit Big... Remove Excess Vowels (It Ain't Troublesome If One's Not Speaking) |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ABBREVIATIONS OF WORDS | A Border Between Reading/ Enscribing & Vocalising Is Apparent, Though It's Often Not Seen... Orally Flustering 'WWW' Offers Real Dilemma Sometimes. |
Angela Brett, who thinks it's silly that people speak 'WWW', which is only an abbreviation in writing, and write things like 'Meg' and 'Gig' which are abbreviations for speaking but longer than the acceptable written abbreviations MB and GB. |
| 100% | ACROSTIC | Argue Correct Reference, Or Study This Interesting Comparison. |
Angela Brett, who is thinking of adding to the ACRONYMS website with a discussion of the definitions of acronym and acrostic. |
| 100% | ALLITERATION | Alike Letters Lead Individual Terms. Excess Rather Annoyingly Turns Into Overt Nausea. |
Eric Bridgstock |
| 100% | ALLITERATIONS | Another Like Letter Indulges The Ear - Repeat Again To Induce Outrageously Nonsensical Sound. |
Angela Brett (see the Alliterations page at http://acronyms.co.nz/alliterations.html) Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles |
| 100% | ANAGRAM | A New Arrangement Giving Reasonably Alike Meaning |
Angela Brett, describing what people usually aim for when finding anagrams. |
| 100% | ANALOGUE | Any Nincompoop At Large Or Girl Under Ether |
Rico Leffanta, because a nincompoop is analagous to a girl under ether. |
| 100% | ANTONYM | Another Name, Totally Opposite, Negative Yielding Moniker |
Gavin Lambert |
| 100% | BBRV | Bit Big; Removed Vowels |
ngl Brtt (c ABBREVIATIONS) |
| 100% | BLOCKAGE | Brain's Lack Of Clarity Kiboshes A Genius's Expressions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Jeff's ACRONYMISTS' BLOCK was cured by his EPSOM SALT acronym, and Angela pointed out that Epsom salt cures more than one type of blockage. |
| 100% | CATHY | Crafty Anagram To Her Yacht |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | CLICHE | Creatively Lacking Imitation Commonly Heard Elsewhere |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CLICHE (2) | Chronically Lacking In Creativity, Hated Everywhere |
Angela Brett |
| 88% | CONCISE | Could Oxford Not Contain Itself in Short Explanations? |
Angela Brett, knowing how long the 'Shorter' Oxford English Dictionary is. |
| 55% | COULDS | Completely Off-the-wall, Utopian, Loads-a-money-for Development Suggestions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see MUST) |
| 100% | EACH | Expressly 'All', Considered Holistically |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | EKANS (2) | Everyone Knows Anagram, No Sweat |
Angela Brett (Ekans is Pokemon #23) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | FAMOUS POEPLE IN IRAQ | Fingers Are Mischievous, One Usually Should Proofread One's Enquiries. Poe's Literary Endeavour, I'msure, Never Included Remote Arab Quarter |
TMcCO'G, when Angela accidentally let this misspelled phrase onto the Unsuccessful Searches list. |
| 100% | GLASSES (3) | Good Looking, A Spectacle... Strange Equivocal Synonyms |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| 93% | GOD DICTIONARY | God, Our Deity, Deserves Incomparable Communicatory Terminology Including Our Nouns, Articles, and Reflexive Yakkings. |
Mysterious Shadow, when Tony said on the forums, 'Look up "Ephemera" in a god dictionary' - letting slip the secret of his amazing acronymising ability. |
| 0% | GRADUATE* | Studying Your Curricula Earned You A Great Degree |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, as the world's first 'Bacronym' - check out the last letter of each word. Education |
| 100% | HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTHONY! | Here's A Properly Phony Year... Because In Roman, The (Heard) Digits Announce You're Allowed Non-Truths. Have One Neat Year! |
Angela Brett, when Tony became old enough to li about his age. Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | INCENTIVE | If National Creative Energies Necessitate Thinking, Irish Variations Excel |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, I said I felt I could create an acronym for anything given the incentive. I was challenged to do INCENTIVE, and did. Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | LOCI | List Of Created Imagery. |
Pam Tubesing, referring to the method of loci. |
| 89% | LONG WORD | Lexical Objects Necessitating Great Work, Obligatory Reading of Dictionary |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MISTAKES | My Inglish's Something Terrible And Kontains Erratic Spellings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MNEMONIC | My Non-Exact Memory Often Needs Increased Capability |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MNEMONIC! | Memory Nugget! Enhancing Mind's Organization / Needs / Intention / Creatively! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. MNEMONIC! was so much fun! Including the 8 lines for Expansion, making MNEMONIC! read down LEFT COLUMN, thus producing ANOTHER MNEMONIC! N spans only pages 769-798 in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary! (Notice, I am afflicted, not only with ACRO/APRO/NYMA/MAKER/MANIA, but also, EXCLAMATION POINTER/MANIA!) |
| 100% | MOSCOW (2) | Monetary Obligations Shove 'Cosmetics' Onto Waitinglist |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Eric said there was another category after 'musts', 'shoulds' and 'coulds' (see MUST) which begins with W... so that the whole idea can be summarised as MoSCoW. |
| 100% | MUST | Minimum Usable Subset, Technically. |
Eric Bridgstock, explaining that he and his colleagues define technical requirements in terms of "musts", "shoulds" and "coulds". |
| 100% | PALINDROME | Put All Letters In New Direction Reverse Or Mirror Effect |
Apronymous Anonymous |
| 92% | PALINDROMES | Palindromes Amazing! (Letters of Information / Notice Digits) Read Opposite: Message Exactly Same! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | PEDANTRY | Plumbum Est. Don't Alter Nixages/Notation, That's Rather Yucky. |
Jeff Anonymous, in response to PENCIL (5) If anyone can think of a better N word for an ending, let me know. |
| 100% | PLURAL | Painfully Loud Ululating, Repeated A Lot! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, explaining that the 'Aaaaaarrrrggghh' in his ANTHRAX (2) is the plural of 'Aarrghh', an official Scrabble word. Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | PUNLESS | Polite Unadorned Natural Laughter Expresses Simplicity Sometimes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela said he was SLIPPING |
| 100% | PUNS | Playful, Unexpected Nuances Surprise! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | PUNS (2) | Paronomasia Unearths Natural Silliness |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | RECURSIVE | RECURSIVE Expansion Continually Unfolds Reflecting Successive Interations, Virtually Endless |
Angela Brett (expand the first word in this expansion for hours of fun. Don't forget to eat.) |
| 100% | SATELLITE | Sat A 'Tall Electric Lamp' = Light! It Truly Enlightened! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Saw 'SATELLITE' thought 'Sat A Light.' Science:Astronomy |
| 83% | SCOPE | Snappy Control Of Playing with English |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, pointing out that LONG WORDs give one more scope. |
| 0% | SCRAMBLED* | Submission Confused. Erroneous Logic. Rules Manifestly Broken. Apronym Disallowed! |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | SELF REFERENTIAL | Some Entries Lack Fully Relevant Expansions (Found Example? Rethink... Expect Now That It's A Lie.) |
Angela Brett (see if you can work out whether this apronym is self-referential. Don't forget to eat.) |
| 100% | SHORT WORDS | Succinct Handling Of Reasoning Tests Wordpower. Only Reasonable Dexterity Succeeds. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 78% | SHOULDS | Strategic Have-to's - Otherwise Ultimately Less-than Desirable Solutions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see MUST) |
| 100% | SLIPPING | Straight Laughter Is Pleasureless/Punless... Please Investigate New Guffaws |
Angela Brett, when Tony responded to something with an ordinary old LOL. |
| 100% | SPOONERISM | Seople Pometimes Offer Odd Narrative, Easily Recited, Involving Sixed Mounds |
Roger Williams |
| 80% | SPUD | Star Performance (from) "Under Down" |
Eric Bridgstock, when after hearing about EAT POTATO's success. |
| 100% | SYNONYM | "Sometimes You Need Other Nouns", You Mean? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SYNONYM (2) | Similar, Yet Not Original Name, You Mean? |
Gavin Lambert |
| 100% | THESAURUS (4) | Tome Helps Everyone Synthesize Apronyms Using Rife, Unlimited Synonyms |
Robert Anonymous |
| 100% | THESAURUS (3) | Tony Has Exceptional Skills, And Uses Reference Utility Sometimes. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | THESAURUS (2) | To Help Expansion Setters - A Useful Resource - Use Studiously. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 82% | THESAURUS | The Handy Encyclopaedia of Synonyms Acronymisers Use Religiously in Unusual Situations. |
Angela Brett |
| 78% | WEBSTER | Worldly Evil Bookmaker Stupidly Took-away Ewes [before] R |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to Noah Webster's practice of taking out U before R in 'colour' and such. Names:Famous people |
| 100% | WEBSTER (2) | Wilful Editor Blatantly Stole Troublesome 'Extra' Representatives. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Famous people |
| 100% | WEBSTER (3) | Which Eminent Book Should Teachers Employ Regularly? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Education |
| 100% | WON'T | Waiting On Next Tweaking |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, suggesting a name for the 'W' category (see MOSCOW (2)) |
| 100% | WORD | We Often Require Dictionaries |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | WORDS ENDING IN GRY | Work Of Rhymester Demands Support - Eventually Needing Dictionary If Not Getting Inspiration - No Good Results Yet? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | WORDSMITH | Wired On Reading Dictionaries So Much It Turns Harmful |
pdtar -- Ditty gave a pointer to your site that included "wordsmith". I decided to play. |