Anyone have an acronym for Kellyanne Conway?
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7 years 9 months ago #11448
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I haven't been able to come up with one.
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7 years 9 months ago #11459
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The term, "acronym," may have been incorrect, but I believe it is closer than, "anagram," which is a word that can be made from the letters in a name. (See anagram for Clint Eastwood, for example.)
Acronym definition: " ...technically, it is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word,usually individual letters."
If any posters can give the correct term for "SCROTUS," "DerGropenfuhrer," or Rumplesthinskin," it would be appreciated!
Acronym definition: " ...technically, it is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word,usually individual letters."
If any posters can give the correct term for "SCROTUS," "DerGropenfuhrer," or Rumplesthinskin," it would be appreciated!
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7 years 9 months ago #11460
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Easier example of an anagram: "Elvis" becomes "lives."
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7 years 9 months ago #11462
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
In the examples you provided --
You already provided the great anagram example of "lives" for "Elvis".
SCROTUS is an acronym (So Called Ruler Of The United States)
DerGroppenFuhrer is a compound word -- a word made up of separate words that are combined without truncating any of the original words -- made up of 3 different words (German or German sounding words in this case) to make one word. Such combining is actually commonplace in German (also in English), my favorite example being spargelweissesuppe (or Weisse spargelsuppe): white asparagus soup (YUM!). Some English examples would be starfish, basketball, crosswalk and sunflower.
Twitler (not mentioned by you, but a great example) is a portmanteau, two words used to describe something that are truncated and combined to create a new word for that something, such as motor hotel becoming motel, smoke and fog becoming smog and, in this case, Twitter and Hitler becoming Twitler. The more I think about it, this is probably the best category for Trumpelthinskin, although it is technically more than a truncated combination of the two names, with the T added to the beginning of "Rumpel" and "thin" replacing "stilt" in Rumpelstiltskin.
Any English language expert help out there?
You already provided the great anagram example of "lives" for "Elvis".
SCROTUS is an acronym (So Called Ruler Of The United States)
DerGroppenFuhrer is a compound word -- a word made up of separate words that are combined without truncating any of the original words -- made up of 3 different words (German or German sounding words in this case) to make one word. Such combining is actually commonplace in German (also in English), my favorite example being spargelweissesuppe (or Weisse spargelsuppe): white asparagus soup (YUM!). Some English examples would be starfish, basketball, crosswalk and sunflower.
Twitler (not mentioned by you, but a great example) is a portmanteau, two words used to describe something that are truncated and combined to create a new word for that something, such as motor hotel becoming motel, smoke and fog becoming smog and, in this case, Twitter and Hitler becoming Twitler. The more I think about it, this is probably the best category for Trumpelthinskin, although it is technically more than a truncated combination of the two names, with the T added to the beginning of "Rumpel" and "thin" replacing "stilt" in Rumpelstiltskin.
Any English language expert help out there?
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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