apronym

[Iqbal H. Ansari]

Please add the following apronym:

TYNRO = whaT whY wheN wheRe whO

Thanks

[Tony]

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?

[Angela]

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!

[Jeff Anonymous]

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!

[Angela]

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! ;^)