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== General ==
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** And, for all the ''four'' letter acronyms, there is the '''E'''xtended '''T'''hree '''L'''etter '''A'''cronym - which is a four-letter acronym itself.
*** Not to mention '''M'''ore '''T'''han '''T'''hree '''L'''etter '''A'''cronym.
* The hacker phrase "'''W'''aste '''O'''f '''M'''oney, '''B'''
== Astronomy ==
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* '''B'''ased '''U'''pon '''R'''elated '''S'''equence '''T'''ypes, an algorithm for assigning bacteria to groups based on their DNA sequences.
* The gene "[[wikipedia:Zbtb7|Zbtb7]]" was formerly known as the "'''POK''' '''e'''rythroid '''m'''yeloid '''on'''togenic factor", which was often shortened to [[Pokémon]]. Pokemon USA naturally threatened to sue, as they didn't want Pokemon to be associated with the gene that may be the trigger for ''cancer'', of all things.
* The medical research software '''P'''hylogenetic '''A'''ssignment of '''N'''amed '''G'''lobal '''O'''utbreak '''Lin'''eages was named after the pangolin, whose consumption as part of traditional Chinese medicine was blamed for the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].
== Chemistry ==
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== Telecommunications ==
* '''ISDN''' (Integrated Services Digital Network), a standard network system which was to transmit voice and data across circuit-switched copper telephone lines, was promptly backronymed to '''I'''t '''S'''till '''D'''oes '''N'''othing.
* '''NTSC''', the 1953-era analogue colour television system, was named for the US National Television System Committee. Any errors in phase would routinely cause the wrong colours to be displayed, earning the backronym '''N'''ever '''T'''wice the '''S'''ame '''C'''olour in many broadcasting textbooks. NTSC was used in North America, Japan and South Korea but is incompatible with both European
** Later, incompatible rival standards ('''PAL''' - Phase Alternate by Line and '''SÉCAM''' - Séquence de Couleur Avec Mémoire, introduced to Europe circa-1967) were more robust. They have their own satirical acronyms, for instance the Anglo-West German '''PAL''' is '''P'''eace '''A'''t '''L'''ast or '''P'''erfect '''A'''t '''L'''ast while the French '''SÉCAM''' '''S'''hows '''E'''very '''C'''olour '''A'''ll '''M'''urky, '''S'''omething '''E'''ssentially '''C'''ontrary to the '''A'''merican '''M'''ethod or '''SE'''cond '''C'''olor '''A'''lways '''M'''agenta.
** In most '''NTSC''' countries (including South Korea but not Japan, which exports its own incompatible system) the successor
* The '''STIR/SHAKEN''' protocol used to combat caller ID spoofing, while taking its name from [[James Bond]]'s catchphrase "shaken, not stirred", stand for '''S'''ecure '''T'''elephony '''I'''dentity '''R'''evisited and '''S'''ignature-based '''H'''andling of '''A'''sserted information using to'''KEN'''s. The creators of SHAKEN "tortured the English language until [they] came up with an acronym.”
== Other ==
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* The eccentric UK pop-science magazine ''New Scientist'' had a laugh at the expense of the Thin Layer Unimorph Driver and Sensor, which is very tenuously acronymised as '''THUNDER'''.
* The underwater pipeline that supplied the Mulberry harbours with fuel for the D-Day landings had one of the simplest and most elegant acronyms ever: P.L.U.T.O. ('''P'''ipe '''L'''ines '''U'''nder '''T'''he '''O'''cean.) (Although strictly speaking the English Channel is not an ocean. That's okay, Pluto isn't, strictly speaking, a planet.).
* It's probably coincidental, but there's a town in ''[[The Elder Scrolls
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