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Saturday, March 08, 2014
anacronym
noun | un-NAK-ruh-niz-uhm
A combination of "anachronism" and "acronym," which refers to an acronym that's so old, no one remembers what the letters used to stand for. "What does RADAR even stand for? What an anacronym!" (By the way, this word was derived from "Radio Detecting And Ranging," but has become such an integral part of the language that it's no longer capitalized.