Apronyms

Apronyms => Apronym Creation => Topic started by: Chris on March 20, 2002, 04:21:36 AM

Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Chris on March 20, 2002, 04:21:36 AM
Hi

I'm part of a small subgroup of people who provide IT support to our School in the University.  We'd like a little, very tongue in check acronym by which to refer to ourselves.  We're having difficulty coming up with something -can anyone help?
The key words we've being working around are:
University of Nottingham
School of Community Health Sciences
IT
Information technology
Sub-group
Technical
Computers/computing
Development

We came up with things like:
School of Community Health sciences Information Technology Technical Subgroup (SCHITTS)
and
Technical IT Subgroup (TITS)
and almost
Technical Operations Subgroup for the School.. (TOSSers)
but didn't like those! :-)

Any assistance gratefully recieved.
Cheers
Chris
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Tony on March 20, 2002, 04:55:41 AM
>>> On 19 March 2002 16:21:36 UTC, Chris wrote:

> We'd like a little, very tongue in check acronym by which to refer to ourselves.

> The key words we've being working around are:
> University of Nottingham
> School of Community Health Sciences
> IT
> Information technology
> Sub-group
> Technical
> Computers/computing
> Development

My first thought is plain and not tongue-in-cheek
UNITS
University of Nottingham Information Technology Subgroup

However a quick check on "Un-" words in the dictionary brings up...
UNTEACH
University of Nottingham Technology Experts At/Around/About Community Health
.. which is a little cheeky, and ...
UNTEACHABLE
University of Nottingham Technology Experts At/Around/About Community Health And Biology Learning Experiences

Hope this sets off a string of useful stuff.
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Angela on March 20, 2002, 07:41:35 AM

Great minds might not think different after all... I came up with UNITS almost immediately only to find it was already on your post. I then tried to think of some more UNs but I haven't come up with anything approaching UNTEACHABLE's standard. I'll think about it some more on the way to work
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Angela on March 20, 2002, 08:42:41 AM
Okay, I'm at work, and annoyed I didn't bring my Newton to write acronyms on - they're all crowded onto the back of a book of vouchers.

UNSOLICITED: University of Nottingham Subgroup Of Learned Indivituals Coordinating Information Technology Endeavours Daily (or Every Day)

UNETHICAL: University of Nottingham's Effort To Help In Computer Aided Learning

I know you wanted a little one though.

Keeping with the rude theme of TITS and SCHITS, we have

UNDIES: University of Nottingham Development/Department's & Information Engineering Subgroup

or, when faced with an IT pickle (hey, there's one for the Computers:Do Not Eat category!) people could call in the BIG GUNS

Biology/Bitwise Information Gurus Guide University of Nottingham's Scientists

You are, of course, BITWISE - Bringing Information Technology Wisdom Into School Environment.

Now I'd better start working before someone sees what I'm doing. :^D
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Tony on March 20, 2002, 10:32:27 AM
As we're talking University.....
UNTUTORED
University of Nottingham Technicians - Useful Technologists Offer Resources in Educational Department

.... but with an eye to students and health services....
UNCLEAN
Useful Nobodies, Computer Literate Educationalists Around Nottingham

Pronounce this one how you will.....
URANUS
University Resource At Nottingham - Useful Subgroup

If you're not too posh...
NON-U
Nerds Of Nottingham University
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Tony on March 20, 2002, 07:22:07 PM
Two more....

UNIVERSITY
University of Nottingham's Incredibly Versatile & Expert Resource, Spreading Information Technology Yourway

A deliberate misspelling...
GENUIS
Geeks Enabling Nottingham University's Information Systems
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Chris on March 20, 2002, 09:43:19 PM
Thanks with your help so far, I'm very impressed and chuckling to myself here - not a good thing when you work in the Division of Psychiatry.

Can I be extremely cheaky and ask that you drop the University of Nottingham bit and work with School of Community Health Sciences.  We are only a very small group for just for our school and not the University as a whole.

I realise this is quite a rude request after all you hard work but hey, you obviously like a challenge - that's why you're here! :-)

Thank you again.

Chris
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Tony on March 21, 2002, 06:07:18 AM
Chris wrote:

> Can I be extremely cheaky
Oh! If you must ;-)

and ask that you drop the University of Nottingham bit and work with School of Community Health Sciences.  We are only a very small group for just for our school and not the University as a whole.

How about a misspelling of "schizo"...

SCHITSO
School of Community Health Information Technology Subgroup Operative.

This means you could introduce yourself as "I'm Chris, i'm a SCHITSO", even if the phrase is very non-PC. (I'm very much in favour of anything which is non-PC!)
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Angela on March 21, 2002, 08:50:22 AM
You could go for a terrible spelling of glitches, and hope that you don't cause any -

GLITSCHS - Group/Geeks Leading Information Technology, School of Community Health Sciences

or you could say you're in stitschs (Subgroup To Information-Technologise the School of Community Health Sciences - yeah I know that's clunky)

or you could be BITSCHS (Bring Information Technology to the School of Community Health Sciences)
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Angela on March 24, 2002, 09:15:20 AM
Hmm... what should I call the category which these acronyms are put into?
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Tony on March 24, 2002, 09:27:33 AM
Angela mused:

> Hmm... what should I call the category which these acronyms are put into?

Occupations. Job descriptions.
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Angela on March 24, 2002, 11:11:41 AM

>>> On 23 March 2002 21:27:33 UTC, Tony wrote:

Occupations. Job descriptions.


Well, I was thinking they'd be in a subcategory of education, but wherever it's put, what should the subcategory be called? These should all be in their own subcategory as they all result from a request to name a particular thing and don't make much sense without reference to that, so they shouldn't be put straight into an existing category. If Chris decides what the subgroup will actually be called, the subcategory could be named after that.
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Rick Morris on November 21, 2005, 09:49:12 AM
Needing help creating an acronym for a program that I oversee.

words of interest are:

sexually abusive youth
specialized
Individualized
case management
treatment

Ideas??
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Tony on November 21, 2005, 12:11:09 PM
>>> On 20 November 2005 20:49:12 UTC, Rick Morris wrote:

> Needing help creating an acronym for a program that I oversee.

> words of interest are:

> sexually abusive youth
> specialized
> Individualized
> case management
> treatment

> Ideas??

Hiya Rick,
I've copied your request to a new thread.
We like to try to maintain discrete threading for each request.
Hope you don't mind.
Tony
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: NUTCAIS - Nottingham University Technical Computing And Information subgroup on December 11, 2005, 11:20:53 PM



>>> On 19 March 2002 16:21:36 UTC, Chris wrote:

Hi

I'm part of a small subgroup of people who provide IT support to our School in the University.  We'd like a little, very tongue in check acronym by which to refer to ourselves.  We're having difficulty coming up with something -can anyone help?
The key words we've being working around are:
University of Nottingham
School of Community Health Sciences
IT
Information technology
Sub-group
Technical
Computers/computing
Development

We came up with things like:
School of Community Health sciences Information Technology Technical Subgroup (SCHITTS)
and
Technical IT Subgroup (TITS)
and almost
Technical Operations Subgroup for the School.. (TOSSers)
but didn't like those! :-)

Any assistance gratefully recieved.
Cheers
Chris
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Cassandra B. Farley on January 04, 2006, 01:51:44 PM
need an acroynm for the word funny
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Tony on January 05, 2006, 04:04:49 AM
Cassandra B. Farley wrote:

> need an acroynm for the word funny

How do you want to use it?
Do you need anything particular to be included?

FUNNY
Fairly Uproarious Novelty 'Ntertains You
(okay so I cheated, that's art!)

Farley Usually Nickers - Nearly Yelling
('nicker' means 'a loud laugh')
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Angela on January 05, 2006, 07:49:44 PM
Hi Cassandra... welcome to the site.

FUNNY is a difficult one... I remember trying it a few times in the past (and of course a few times since your post) and not coming up with anything. The U and Y are difficult, but most of all I never seem to be able to find relevant N words. But Tony's managed some (by cheating on one N and using an obscure word for another, I noticed!) so I'd better give it another go.

For Unlimited Ntertainment/Nonsense, Needle Yourself!

(you should always be able to make fun of yourself.)

By the way, in future if you want an acronym created which is not related to an existing thread, please start a new thread.
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Tony on January 06, 2006, 03:57:26 AM
Angela wrote:

>Hi Cassandra... welcome to the site.

>FUNNY is a difficult one... I remember trying it a few times
>in the past (and of course a few times since your post) and
> not coming up with anything. The U and Y are difficult, but
>most of all I never seem to be able to find relevant N words.

>But Tony's managed some (by cheating on one N and using an
>obscure word for another, I noticed!) so I'd better give it another go.

Pah!
Cheating is always allowed and 'obscurity' only depends on the size of one's vocabulary! ;-)

For Uproarious Novelty & Naughty Yearnings

(With acknowledgment to the Monty Python team....)
Frivolity Unlimited - Nudge-Nudge Yourself
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Blaine Steward on February 09, 2006, 11:48:33 AM
we're creating a new work unit that will provide all kinds of support and services (shared services) to all of the employees of the corporation, which is the city of edmonton. We want to have some kind of an acronym that we can use with "Ask _____" as a slogan. some of the words we are thinking of are: customer, service, help, information, answers, employee

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Blaine on February 09, 2006, 11:49:02 AM
we're creating a new work unit that will provide all kinds of support and services (shared services) to all of the employees of the corporation, which is the city of edmonton. We want to have some kind of an acronym that we can use with "Ask _____" as a slogan. some of the words we are thinking of are: customer, service, help, information, answers, employee

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: janice on March 18, 2006, 06:45:49 AM
I need an acronym for the following words:
keys
ski pass (either word)
uniform
insurance
completed term form (any of those three words)
final check (either word)
exit interview (either word)
bank keys (either word)

Thanks
Title: Help to create an acronym please
Post by: Angela on March 19, 2006, 09:53:38 AM
Hi Janice, welcome to the forums!

In future, please start a new thread to ask a question. I'd start one for you, but I can't think what to put as the subject.

I'll try to come up with some apronyms, but it would help enormously if you would say what you want the apronym for. It's difficult to find a link between those words. Is it about a ski instructor who is about to leave his or her job? If so you might tell him/her to:

Send Keys In Please, After Staff Sendoff.

Sorry, I can't do any better than that, I really can't figure out what the apronym is supposed to be about.