Wednesday, January 20, 2010

What is an acronym for a hiccup?

This is a query that has led at least 2 people to my blog recently and deserves some serious thought.
Let me think about this.  An acronym is where you take the first letter of each word in a phrase, or sometimes the initial sound, and create a 'word' or something that can be pronounced as a word.  For example, FRBR! Functional Requirements (for) Bibliographic Records (charmingly pronounced 'ferber', like a Furby).

Ah, look there, they left out the for.  Then it would be FRFBR (which would be pronounced 'ferf-ber', a disease not unlike scrofula, pictured at the right).

I assume there is a rule concerning little helper words like and, the, for, of, but, histologic dysmorphism, at, on, stuff like that.
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(the sound of thinking)
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perhaps they meant an ANTONYM?
An antonym for hiccup would be...a belch?

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