Apronyms
General Category => Word Games => Topic started by: Iqbal H. Ansari on August 05, 2003, 09:52:06 PM
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Please add the following apronym:
TYNRO = whaT whY wheN wheRe whO
Thanks
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Iqbal H. Ansari wrote:
> TYNRO = whaT whY wheN wheRe whO
This reminds me of the quotation from Rudyard Kipling:-
"I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew; their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."
I have always felt that this should be the motto of a good journalist.
NEWSWORTHY
Never Exclude W Sequence When Out Reporting Topical Happenings - Yes?
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Iqbal H. Ansari wrote:
> TYNRO = whaT whY wheN wheRe whO
This is not really an apronym, since as far as I know there is no word 'tynro'. Strictly speaking, I don't think it's an acronym either, since the letters used are not initials. It's probably best described as an acrostic (although many dictionaries do not give a distinction between acronyms and acrostics, from what I recall some mention that an acrostic is not as restricted to initials), which gives us an opportunity to define a new term. An apropos acrostic is an aprostic!
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This is what I'd call a liberal acrostic.
>>> On 05 August 2003 22:24:36 UTC, Angela wrote:
Iqbal H. Ansari wrote:
> TYNRO = whaT whY wheN wheRe whO
This is not really an apronym, since as far as I know there is no word 'tynro'. Strictly speaking, I don't think it's an acronym either, since the letters used are not initials. It's probably best described as an acrostic (although many dictionaries do not give a distinction between acronyms and acrostics, from what I recall some mention that an acrostic is not as restricted to initials), which gives us an opportunity to define a new term. An apropos acrostic is an aprostic!
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I said:
An apropos acrostic is an aprostic!
And an acrostic which uses an agnate (in the linguistic sense) of itself in the expansion is an agnostic! ;^)