What does backronymy mean?

backronymy

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"This is made possible by the almost instantaneous demotivation of acronyms (see also Fandrych 2004: 21, 122, 132, and Ungerer 1991a and 1991b), which enables processes such as remotivation, backronymy and playfulness."

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