{"id":10482,"date":"2017-07-24T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10482"},"modified":"2017-07-24T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:16:09","slug":"word-of-the-day-183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/24\/word-of-the-day-183\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>backronym<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <b>backronym<\/b>, or <b>bacronym<\/b>, is a specially constructed phrase that is supposed to be the source of a word that is, or is claimed to be, an <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Acronym and initialism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acronym_and_initialism\">acronym<\/a>. Backronyms may be invented with serious or humorous intent or may be a type of <a title=\"False etymology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/False_etymology\">false etymology<\/a> or <a title=\"Folk etymology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_etymology\">folk etymology<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Backronym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em>Meet the Next-Generation Space Telescope<\/em>,&#8221; Korey Haynes, <em><strong>Discover<\/strong><\/em>, July \/ August 2017 (offline only?):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HDST is only one placeholder name for this project. A previous NASA study used the wistful backronym ATLAST, which has come to stand for Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>backronym: A backronym, or bacronym, is a specially constructed phrase that is supposed to be the source of a word that is, or is claimed to be, an acronym. Backronyms may be invented with serious or humorous intent or may be a type of false etymology or folk etymology. [Wikipedia] \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/24\/word-of-the-day-183\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10483,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}