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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From a chat-list post: ”’MsTerry’ (an anachronism for ‘mystery’) is a well known troll on the Wacco list.”
Not only did he apparently substitute “anachronism” for “acronym”, but even “acronym” wouldn’t have been the right word!
Dixon
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Funny! I suppose it’s a homophone. But it isn’t a close homophone.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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“Anagram” comes closer, but it’s not quite right either!
Feeling quite combobulated.
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Another blendiferous variant, in two spellings:
EMG is an anachronym for electromyogram.
RTFM (Read The Fantastic Manual): This anacronym isoften used when someone asks a simple or common question. The word ‘Fantastic’ is usually replaced with one much more vulgar.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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‘MsTerry’ (an anachronism for ‘mystery’)
I suspect that the writer was going for something in the general area of pseudonym / anonymous and came up with a vaguely similar sounding word. It’s a sort of Fay-Cutler malapropism if my analysis is correct, or possibly a Classical/Sheridan malapropism if the user thinks that anachronism is an appropriate term.
EMG is an anachronym for electromyogram.
This one is more clearly an anachronym << acronym (classical) malapropism, even given its “blendiferousness”.
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