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anacronym

Main Entry:  anacronym
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  an acronym that few remember what the letters stand for, such as laser and radar
Example:  URL is becoming an anacronym as no one can remember what the letters stand for.
Etymology:  from 'anachronistic' and 'acronym'
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Anacronym is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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