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For even more fun, make it a [[Recursive Acronym]], or add [[Acronym Confusion]]. In government, military, and engineering contexts, this is absolutely [[Truth in Television]], probably because there are so many acronyms in those fields that nobody can remember them if they don't have a nice mnemonic.
There are also backronyms, where an already-extant name is turned into an acronym by reverse formation. For instance, DVD might have originally been a digital video disc, or maybe the DVD Consortium insists the initials don't stand for anything. The discs then prove to be useful for some other purpose, like storing computer data, and the name is backronymed to be a digital ''versatile'' disc – choosing new words to yield the desired initials. SMS was a "short message service" in English, but en français that might be « service des messages succincts » to keep the same initials.
Technically it's only an acronym if you pronounce it as one word (like "laser" or "scuba"), and if you spell out the letters, it's an ''initialism''. In practice, most people just use "acronym" for them all, so feel free to add them as examples.
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