A lovely word

[Johnb - co.uk]

People

I have just discovered 'backronym' - it is usually an already existing acronym which has individual words changed but with really changing the overall meaning (like Experimental Safety Vehicles to Enhanced Safety Vehicle)

Isn't our language wonderful!

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

There used to be another game played by the dixonary group long ago - I forget when - where the "dealer" would post an acronym and the players would make up what it stood for and then vote on the best response.

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[Daniel B. Widdis]

And the former MPGames / Gamers folks from CompuServe now play it here:

https://www.dreamlyrics.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=39&page=1

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[Ryan McGill]

Balderdash incorporated that with their complete renovation of the game a few years back. I like the game considerably less now that there are Trivial Pursuit-style categories, though I think each of the subsets would be a delightful game on their own.