Of Modi government and its penchant for backronyms while naming its marquee schemes

The NDA government employs creative backronyms for its schemes like POSHAN, PM KISAN and PRASHAD, highlighting initiatives in ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Word of the Week: Backronyms

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. English speakers use acronyms every day: NASA, AIDS, ZIP code, and NAFTA are examples of acronyms ...
Wired

Web Semantics Watch III: Recursive Acronyms

A recursive acronym is an acronym (or occasionally, a backronym) which refers to itself in the expression for which it stands, similar to a recursive abbreviation. Though, because of their lack of a ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Chrysti the Wordsmith: Backronyms

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. NASA, AIDS, ZIP code and NAFTA are examples of acronyms--words made up of the first letters of a ...
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Of Modi government and its penchant for backronyms while naming its marquee schemes

Earlier known as the Mid-day meal scheme for children in government schools, the Modi government in 2021 created the backronym POSHAN, standing for Poshan Shakti Nirman. With an allocation of ₹1.3 ...