SOS (or, “How to win a gazillion dollars from an evil coworker”)
Posted April 19th, 2008 by Murray @ ulblog
Filed under: Folklore
Tags: backronyms, folk beliefs, language
So, okay, maybe you can’t really win a gazillion dollars with this bet, but it might be interesting to try with your friends, family and coworkers all the same.
Among other things, it demonstrates how language and folk beliefs develop and intermingle, and also introduces us to a reasonably common culprit in language-related folk beliefs: the backronym.
