acronym creep
n.— «Acronym Creep—a condition known to beset the Canadian Chinese Christian Community (CCCC) and United Nations (UN) staff. Akin to what’s known in software developing parlance as “feature creep”, acronym creep is a prediliction or tendancy to using using more and more acronyms.» —“Acronym Creep” by Dan p a s s i o n + r e a s o n Mar. 15, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
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