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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EldarOfSuburbia" data-source="post: 233461" data-attributes="member: 4106">If you type "acronym" into Google, all of the definitions agree that an "acronym" must be a pronounceable word made up of the initials(-ish) of other words.So POTUS (President Of The United States) or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) or NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) are acronyms.Kinda surprised me because that means that TLA and ETLA aren't actually acronyms.But if they're not acronyms, and they're not abbrevs. (see what I did there?) then what are they?I mean, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), IBM (International Business Machines), DHS (Department of Homeland Security), DSS (Department of Social Security), IRS (Internal Revenue Service), CNN (Cable News Network) - what term do we use for these very common uses of taking initials to form something shorter?  If you ask most people, they'd say it's an acronym.  Not every company/organization/entity has a set of such fortunately aligned initials that using them results in a pronounceable word!Sure in some areas the use "code" or "symbol" is in common use.For airports, the term "code" is used: JFK, ORD, LAX, and so on.For stocks, the term is "symbol": AAPL, FB, AMZN, and so on.So maybe we come up with our own, special, term when such a linguistic construct refers to a pinball table.  My stab is "pincronym".</blockquote>

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