Posted on June 24, 2009 4:47 AM acronymic tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter is Twittering] Reference

I think I assumed it was jargon of non-acronymic origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference

An avid reader emailed me with a supposed acronymic origin of spud.    From Wordnik.com.  [et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Like all other pre-20th century acronymic origins, this one is false.    From Wordnik.com.  [et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Merrill Lynch joined Citi in the acronymic debacles of the past few years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citigroup's sprawl fosters risks, supporting the case for breakup] Reference

One sure sign of a lack of political vision is a rise in the number of pieces of acronymic legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [B2fxxx] Reference

It was Sharon who explained to me that the "Filth" of the title was an acronymic joke name for the hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Sells Books in 2007?] Reference

No sense spelling out these acronymic idiocies, which have no reason for existing aside from the money they skim off every fight they "sanction.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Even The Pols Came Out Swinging] Reference

ATHENS The Games have digressed into the Athens Protest Olympics with acronymic organizations running amok, scheming to change any result they don't find agreeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Enough already with the gymnastics gyrations] Reference

With regard to the Department of Education, since it's acronymic title is so easily confused with the Department of Energy, could it be re-named Department of Public Education?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Term Policies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

In response, the Federal Reserve sharply cut interest rates and established a Scrabble game's worth of acronymic lending and insurance programs to reassure investors and jump-start markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government Holds Strings to Markets] Reference

Sure, the Grand Old Man of horror movies has been a little on the outs lately – LOTD might well be an acronymic form of Letdown Of Terrifying Dimensions, and does anyone even remember “Bruiser”?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

The acronymic language used in Escape Plans disguises this somewhat, but the systems of the book are based upon a computing model which is probably more familiar now than it would have been in the mid-1980s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days of Future Past « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference

And a dentist asks the inevitable acronymic question, RUNUM (Are you numb?).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4] Reference

Kseniya, maybe it's acronymic, and SF will astound us with a pithy backronym.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

The acronymic aspect works, but the word homes has no semantic connection to lakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference

It's the TV broadcasters and sociologists who use UK because it's shorter and acronymic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

I blame texting and kids that don't learn how to spell in lieu of acronymic communication.    From Wordnik.com.  [IAmATVJunkie.com: News, Great Clips, Unfiltered Snark (and sometimes, free stuff!)] Reference

The shelters in question, with elaborate acronymic names like BLIPS, COBRA, HOMER and POPS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deutsche Bank to pay $553.6 million in tax shelter case - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

Dawn of Sorrow, the series 'first DS title, gave an acronymic hint to the system, obviously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joystiq] Reference

In acronymic language almost every college grad under the age of 50 can understand, the famous FFEL is dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

In acronymic language almost every college grad under the age of 50 can understand, the infamous FFEL is dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

But accessing files on the network still takes a UPnP server and other bits of annoying acronymic magic that makes my.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

Such acronymic explanations are almost invariably unsupported by historical evidence, but they make nice tales to tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference

Dawn of Sorrow, the series 'first DS title, gave an acronymic hint to the system, obviously You may not post new threads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evil Avatar] Reference

If NASA's moon bombing turns up ice-water, another acronymic organization beginning in N will stand belatedly vindicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Randi Educational Foundation] Reference

The ideal mnemonic device, then, should be acronymic, concise, admitting of no significant variable, and revelatory of what it represents.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference

Another seemingly far-out acronymic explanation jumps to 19th-century patriot Giuseppe Mazzini and would have it: Mazzini Autorizza Furti.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1] Reference

Briefly: Shuler spoke at my high school and used an acronymic version of our school name to discuss awesome things about the people that attended it.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Central to the effective and sensitive detection of the cosmic synchrotron radiation is the newly constructed digital telescope LOFAR (acronymic for Low Frequency ARay).    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

Houses Of The Holey RALEIGH - One of the acronymic creations of the Great Recession is HAMP, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [JLF > John Hood's Daily Journal] Reference

(As long as they were going for acronymic conveyance of adolescent attitude, they should have called it Ya.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

The Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (or MAD, in an acronymic stretch), it has a resolution better than Hubble's!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

I blame texting and kids that don't learn how to spell in lieu of acronymic communication. http: / / www. typepad.com / services / trackback / 6a00d83451c17f69e201156f737da9970c.    From Wordnik.com.  [IAmATVJunkie.com: News, Great Clips, Unfiltered Snark (and sometimes, free stuff!)] Reference