mandag 06 september 2004, 03:09, skrev Kjetil Torgrim Homme:
definitivt. "spool" er eit akronym (om enn kanskje bakoverdanna), det står for "Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line". dette trur eg ikkje gir så mykje meining for den jamne engelsktalande heller.
Ser ikke slik ut :-)
backronym n. [portmanteau of back + acronym] A word interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended. This is a special case of what linguists call `back formation'. Examples are given under BASIC, recursive acronym (Cygnus), Acme, and mung. Discovering backronyms is a common form of wordplay among hackers.
Kilde: Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001)
- K