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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta love a good backronym.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think in this case its an actual acronym. They came up with and named the process, so its not after the fact.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Also, we'd have to hear them pronounce it to know if it was an acronym or an initialism, if my understanding is correct.