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Correction needed: Saying that WIKI stands for "What I know is" is not actually an acronym, but a backronym. Acronym means that the phrase is the actual origin of the word (self-contained underwater breathing aparatus became scuba), while a backronym is a phrase made up later to explain it (TIP is not from "To insure promptness" - that's a backronym that was made up later) <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/67.42.80.45|67.42.80.45]] ([[User talk:67.42.80.45|talk]]) 03:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned --> |
Correction needed: Saying that WIKI stands for "What I know is" is not actually an acronym, but a backronym. Acronym means that the phrase is the actual origin of the word (self-contained underwater breathing aparatus became scuba), while a backronym is a phrase made up later to explain it (TIP is not from "To insure promptness" - that's a backronym that was made up later) <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[Special:Contributions/67.42.80.45|67.42.80.45]] ([[User talk:67.42.80.45|talk]]) 03:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned --> |
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: SO corrected, and an internal link was added to help with the definition of backronym. --[[User:Claygate|Claygate]] 12:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC) |
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