Word: acronymed
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...occasion was a pilot demonstration of what the American Academy of General Practice calls Project MORE. The name, no acronym, reflects the academy's urge to recruit more premedical students and thus aid in the production of more doctors, especially G.P.s. Even sharper than the threat of an overall shortage of doctors in the U.S. is the growing scarcity of "family doctors," as more and more medical graduates go immediately into specialty training. The ratio of family doctors (including some specialists, notably internists, but mostly general practitioners) has dropped from one to 1,100 population...
...reducing complex concepts to starkest abbreviations." From O.K. to K.O., Americans have long coined initial-born words. But what began as playful sport has turned into contagion and verbal smog (smoke and fog). Just to describe the new rash of alphabetease, linguists were forced to invent a new word: acronym (from the Greek akros for tip, onyma for name), which first appeared in dictionaries in 1947. Most insidious breeders are public relations experts, adept at spawning the punch word that sums up an organization, then, to fit its letters, turning out an often fatuous full title. Examples: WAIF (Women...