A pedant would say that an acronym requires that the abbreviated combination of letters be pronounced as a word. SCUBA. RADAR. FUBAR. U.N.C.L.E. And so on. I am not that pedantic, as I feel common usage has changed the meaning of the word to include things like IRS, WKRP, and TLA. Luckily, my submission works either way.
I work at a place that goes by the unfortunate three letter moniker of "ANL". Unfortunate, because even if you don't pronounce it like a word, you're still pretty much saying "anal".
This amuses me to no end.
That's the type of guy I am.
A former division of this ANL place was the Pulsed Neutron Source. PNS.
The ANL PNS.
Again, this amuses me to no end. Yes, I know. This is why I don't have children.
In an attempt to make the name less embarrassing, they called it the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source. This leads people who think like I do to go down one of two roads.
1) The Intense PNS.
2) The iPNS. New from Apple.
Regardless, I'm giggling all the way down either road.
I'm not sure what a sweating cylinder has to do with intense pulsed neutrons, but this is the logo found on a ruler that was some shwag from the now defunct division.
The ANL iPNS ruler. For measuring... something.
I'm sorry.
4 comments:
I always work mine out with a K&E Slide Rule.. ;o)
Gads, I worked on a project at SITEL called SITELonline or SOL. My wife is always talking about POS, but she says it means Point of Sale... hmm.
My favorite is W.A.G.
Man, I worked in that building for almost two years and didn't even think of that acronym!
Seriously?
Didn't even cross my mind!
Loren is going to be so disappointed.
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