Anachronistic Acronyms, Hence Backronyms!

I picked this title because in my mind the words anachronisms and acronyms have been mixed up for a long time! Finally I have found the connection that I hope can unscramble them and their meanings for me. If an anachronism is a thing that is chronologically out of place, especially one from a former age that is incongruous in the present, then bacronyms are the perfect replacements for anachronistic acronyms. Backronyms are like acronyms, except the words are chosen to fit the letters rather than the other way around. The term, backronym, was coined in 1983, part of a monthly contest held by the Washington Post involving inventing new words. A common example is AMBER alerts, the child abduction bulletins that go out across cities when kids have been snatched? Officially, AMBER stands for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response," but that's actually a backronym invented to fit the name "Amber," after Amber Hagerman, a Texas girl whose 1996 abduction and murder led to the program's formation.

So I have decided to come up with a few backronyms of my own.

For Nic, who believes in the KISS method of enhancing every meal because ketchup is simply sublime.

For Ethan and Bobby, like a BOSS, because they are always being outrageously seriously smart. (I figure you two will want to change one of the last two words to sexy which means you’ll be making your own backronym, like a boss.)

And finally for friends and family in the Bahamas, on living at AUTEC, learn to accept unusual things-especially chickcharnies!