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Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee
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Acronyms, initialisms, and other abbreviations can be difficult sometimes, especially if multiple groups have the same abbreviations, or if you're bombarded with long and complex ones to memorize, so mistakes are understandable. But they're still generally recognizable as acronyms, and failing to realize that a word is an acronym is misreading on a whole new level. This type of linguistic butchery tends to manifest in two distinct forms. One is misreading a written acronym and saying it like a word, like seeing "ABC" written down and saying it as a word like "Ab-cuh." The other is hearing a spoken acronym and then repeating or transcribing it as if it's a word, like hearing "ABC" and writing it down as "Aybeecee". Normally, this is used to illustrate someone's poor command of literacy, lack of education, or general inexperience with the language they're speaking. It may also be used in a Future Imperfect setting, usually a post-apocalyptic one, to illustrate how basic knowledge of the past was lost or muddled over the years. This is Truth in Television in that many acronyms that appear to form pronounceable words have indeed gone on to become words in their own right, including such well-known examples as "laser" (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) and "scuba" (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus). This may have been because they were originally mistaken for single words, or simply because it's generally easier to say "Check the Radar" than "Check the R.A.D.A.R.", and certainly easier than "Check the Radio Detection And Ranging." This phenomenon is sometimes called an "anachronym" (portmanteau of anachronism + acronym), to distinguish it from an ordinary pronounceable acronym (such as NATO or NASA). note However, this may be liable to cause confusion; some also use "anachronym" to describe Artifact Names, like how we still call aluminum foil "tinfoil" despite it no longer being made with tin. Or more confusingly, Artifact Names that are also acronyms, like "cc" in emails being short for "carbon copy". See Fun with Acronyms for more on that. Compare One-Letter Pun, Funetik Aksent, Malaproper, Mondegreen Gag, and Rouge Angles of Satin. Contrast Shoehorned Acronym, which is about acronyms created to resemble normal words. See also Fun with Homophones and Fun with Acronyms. Not to be confused with Acronym Confusion, which is about someone mixing up two groups with similar abbreviations. |
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Henry Huggins: In Henry and Ribsy, Ramona overhears Beezus and Henry talking about the PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) and thinks they're spelling out the name of a food they don't want her to have. Even when they tell her that the PTA is just a bunch of ladies talking, she demands to be given PTA. They resort to buying a small bag of potato chips and telling her it's PTA. | |
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The Simpsons: In "King Size Homer", Homer sees a prompt on his computer monitor that reads "press any key to continue". As he looks for the "any" key, he misreads some of the other keys; Esc as "esk", Ctrl as "kuh-tar-uhl", and PgUp as "pig-up". | |
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Horizon Forbidden West: The Quen model their government off of a corporate board, with their expedition leader being called the "Ceo" (pronounced "see-oh"). | |
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Motel of the Mysteries focuses on the ancient land of Usa, with places being excavated by archeologists in the 41st century. "Usa" is actually the United States of America, having been destroyed in the mid-1980s due to a massive influx of junk mail that literally buried the whole country. | |
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In Mall Rats (TLH), someone writes Leni a note reading, "U R a QT" (a One-Letter Pun for "you are a cutie"), but being a Dumb Blonde, she mistakes it for a word and pronounces it as "yurakt". | |
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Yellow Submarine: When The Beatles read Jeremy's business card ("Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D") aloud, Ringo pronounces "Ph.D" as "fudd." | |
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Idiocracy: The "Time Masheen", actually a museum exhibit, says that the U.N. was called the "Un" because it defeated Charlie Chaplin's Nazis and "un-Nazied the world forever." | |
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Harry Potter: Hermione starts a movement promoting the liberation of House-Elves named Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare. Ron immediately points out that nobody would like to wear a button with the word "Spew" on it. | |
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Into the Jaws of Doom: Early into your adventure, you're contacted by a digital Mission Control who actively tries to help you escape from the evil supercomputer, who introduces herself as "Pee-dee Aye". You finally meet her at the end of the story, where you realize she's a P.D.A. — Personalized Digital Assistant. | |
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Animaniacs: When Yakko tells Pablo Picasso that "P.P." is on his shirt, Dot thinks he said "pee-pee" and responds, "Disgusting!" | |
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SCP Foundation: Members of Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting have Fun with Acronyms that belong to other groups. They refer to the SCP Foundation as "Essie Pee", the Global Occult Coalition as “Geo Sea�, and Marshall, Carter, & Dark as “Emcee Dee�. It varies whether it is due to ignorance or Malicious Misnaming, as some new acts first hear of "Essie Pee" as stories of the Bogeyman, while the veterans and management of the Circus are quite familiar with their enemies (SCP & GOC) and business partner (MC&D). | |
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Sesame Street: In Big Bird's song "ABC-DEF-GHI", he sees a banner with the alphabet printed on it and mistakes it for a word (pronounced "abka-deffgy-jekyll-manopkris-toovwixes"), calling it "the most remarkable word I've ever seen." | |
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Nextwave: Tabitha "Boom-Boom" Smith apparently pronounces the internet acronym "ZOMG". | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Inverted. Penny interrupts Sheldon in the middle of an online game and he says "AFK" before pausing. Penny asks what AFK means and he responds, "Away From Keyboard." Penny says, "Oh, I see," and Sheldon misinterprets that as "OIC" and asks what that acronym means. | |
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: In "Cody Goes to Camp," Mr. Moseby tries to give London a driving lesson. Moseby asks if she's familiar with the gear shift. When she calls it "the prindle," he loses his patience. | |
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DuckTales: A Running Gag in "Til Nephews Do Us Part" is that Scrooge's employees and friends don't understand what ASAP means. Launchpad recognizes that it's an acronym but doesn't know the meaning, while Duckworth doesn't even understand that it's an acronym and thinks Scrooge is calling him "a sap." | |
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The Simpsons Movie: During Grandpa Abe's divinely inspired rant in church, he shouts "Ee-pa! Ee-pa!" Later, when the Environmental Protection Agency seals Springfield underneath a giant glass dome, Marge sees the letters "EPA" on their helicopters and realizes that's what Abe was prophesying. | |
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Jehtt: Discussed in "It's Pronounced GIF". Sonic and Shadow get into an argument over the pronunciation of the acronym "GIF" (Sonic pronounces it as "gif" as in "gift", Shadow pronounces it as "jif" as in "jiffy") before starting to mangle other acronyms. After saying a few, Sonic stops him when he's surprised to learn that "laser" is an acronym. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: The Old World Blues DLC is set in the Big Mountain Research Complex. Wastelanders refer to it as "the Big Empty," due to both misunderstanding "Big MT" and because of the area's desolation. | |
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The Petri Dish: In a parody of The Wizard of Oz, some bacteria call a shrunken man the Great Awz, not realising that the "AWZ" on his nametag was just his initials. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law: Invoked with the name of Milo Murphy's dog Diogee, which is pronounced like "D-O-G." | |
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The Ladykillers (2004): Ms. Munson is confused by Prof. Dorr's use of "PhD" while offering up his credentials and asks "Like Elmer?" | |
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Gilligan's Island: In "St. Gilligan and the Dragon," Gilligan defeats a mysterious beast which turns out to be a downed weather balloon. The Skipper pokes through the wreckage and finds it labeled "USAF" on the side. Gilligan looks at it and asks "Us-aff?" before the Skipper annoyedly corrects him. | |
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Zootopia: Gideon maliciously reminds Judy that since he's a fox, the predator instinct is still in his "duh-nuh." When his friend asks him if he means "DNA", Gideon snaps back with "Don't tell me what I know!" | |
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"Simp" likely comes from a shortening of "simpleton," not an acronym meaning "sucker idolizing mediocre pussy." (Or "Squirrels In My Pants") | |
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30 Rock: Inverted. Liz wants to be a conscious consumer, so buys a pair of jeans that she thinks says "Hand-Made in USA," Jack points out that it's actually made by the oppressed Hand people (pronounced "Hahnd") from the island dictatorship of Usa. | |
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Superman: In the New 52 era of DC Comics, Bizarro, as introduced in Forever Evil, was changed from being an alternate universe version of Superman into a half-baked clone of Superman created by Lex Luthor for his own purposes. In that story, his name was a corruption of his project name, B-0 (pronounced "B-Zero"). | |
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Mrs. Frisby and many of the other creatures do not know what exactly NIMH is other than it being the place the rats are from. Nicodemus explains to her that it's short for the National Institute of Mental Health, where the rats were subjected to medical experiments that increased their intelligence. | |
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire fanfic Canucks, the Free Folk misunderstand Lt. Dusquene's abbreviated rank and assume his title is "Eltee". | |
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In an episode of The Venture Bros., Dr. Mrs. The Monarch tells Phantom Limb she saw someone with 'pee pee' on his belt buckle. Limb simply states that "That happens sometimes", only for Dr. Mrs. Monarch to clarify that she meant the letters P.P., marking the man as a member of the Guild's rival orginization, the Peril Partnership. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: At the start of "Smart Attack!", Timmy's attempt to do geography homework doesn't go well. | |
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After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America: There are several places in America where an abbreviation of their antediluvian name has supplanted the original one, like the culture in New Orleans being "Nolan" (from N.O., LA). One region of Florida is known as "Eyefor," after the I-4 highway. |
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Saving Private Ryan: A Running Gag throughout the film is how all of the other soldiers, especially Miller's team, are amused about Private Upham not understanding the word "FUBAR" (the novelization by Max Allan Collins also has the word spelled as foobar so the audience won't catch wise quickly and adds a scene where Upham thumbs through a German dictionary trying to find it after being told it's German word as a lark). It's not until the Final Battle that he is told that it's the acronym for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition". | |
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This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It: Dave initially mishears REPER (Rapid Exotic Pathogen Eradication/Research) as "raper" and has to do a double-take. Amy also mishears it as the word "Reaver," "Like from Firefly." | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Exploited in "Enemy In-Law". When Plankton expresses interest in Mama Krabs, Karen indignantly exclaims "I'm your wife!" Plankton retorts that she's actually his "W.I.F.E.": Wired Integrated Female Electroencephalograph. | |
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In the Heights: The origin of Usnavi's unusual name is revealed to be this in "Hundreds of Stories". On the day his parents emigrated from the Dominican Republic to America, their ship passed a U.S. Navy ship. His Spanish-speaking father thought was a single word, "Usnavy", and decided to name their unborn child after the ship. | |
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In the How the Grinch Stole Christmas! fanfic You're an All Right One, Mr. Grinch, this trope is inverted when Wai En introduces themselves to a man, who thinks their name is "Y/N". | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Invoked by Barney. He works at a clearly corrupt corporation and is unrealistically rich, but is never shown doing any actual work. On more than one occasion, his friends asked him what his job is, but he seemingly dodges the question by just scoffing and saying "please." Come the final season, "please" is revealed to mean "Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything." | |
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Green Acres: Lisa refers to the car transmission as the "prenedel", thinking that the abbreviations for the gear settings (P, R, N, D, and L) are one word. | |
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