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Iqbal H. Ansari

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« on: August 05, 2003, 09:52:06 PM »
Please add the following apronym:

TYNRO = whaT whY wheN wheRe whO

Thanks

Tony

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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2003, 05:26:39 AM »
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

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« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2003, 10:24:36 AM »

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

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« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2003, 10:33:42 AM »
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

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« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2003, 12:17:25 PM »
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! ;^)