[Dixonary] A lovely word
 

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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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Re: [Dixonary] A lovely word
 

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.



On 8/12/2019 2:41 PM, Johnb - co.uk wrote:




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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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Re: [Dixonary] A lovely word
 

And the former MPGames / Gamers folks from CompuServe now play it here:
https://www.dreamlyrics.com/forums/u...oard=39&page=1

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> 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.
>
> On 8/12/2019 2:41 PM, Johnb - co.uk wrote:
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> 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!
> --
> *John*
>
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[Dixonary] A lovely word
 

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.


On Monday, August 12, 2019 at 11:41:48 AM UTC-7, jo... (AT) john-barrs (DOT) co.uk
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> 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!
> --
> *John*
>
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