{"id":7686,"date":"2012-03-08T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2012-07-13T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T09:04:58","slug":"word-of-the-day-backanoym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7686","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: backronym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8216;backronym&#8217; is a combination of\u00a0<em>backward<\/em> and\u00a0<em>acronym<\/em> and has been defined as a &#8220;reverse acronym&#8221;. \u00a0A backronym\u00a0is a\u00a0phrase constructed purposely, such that an\u00a0acronym can be formed to a specific desired word.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favourites comes from the James Bond books and films: the organisation\u00a0<strong>SP<\/strong>ecial\u00a0<strong>E<\/strong>xecutive for\u00a0<strong>C<\/strong>ounter-intelligence,\u00a0<strong>T<\/strong>errorism,\u00a0<strong>R<\/strong>evenge and\u00a0<strong>E<\/strong>xtortion\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SPECTRE\">SPECTRE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on backronyms, see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Backronym\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8216;backronym&#8217; is a combination of\u00a0backward and\u00a0acronym and has been defined as a &#8220;reverse acronym&#8221;. \u00a0A backronym\u00a0is a\u00a0phrase constructed purposely, such that an\u00a0acronym can be formed to a specific desired word. One of my favourites comes from the James Bond books and films: the organisation\u00a0SPecial\u00a0Executive for\u00a0Counter-intelligence,\u00a0Terrorism,\u00a0Revenge and\u00a0Extortion\u00a0or SPECTRE. For more information on backronyms, see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8930,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}