I have one on the shelf right in front of me, but I never heard it called by its initials. I was trying to think of a novel rather than a reference book or dictionary.
Well, Bob, I don't know about these others, but I love a good night in with the old Oxford English Dictionary. I'm assuming you've already read it, but I've only just started Chapter L, so no spoilers please. That labascate bit? Killer stuff. I was so on the edge of my seat, I was beginning to fall off.
Apparently less 23% of people taking this quiz use British spelling, plus a few oddball American nerds. That's for all 3 words, either you know it or don't. That's only half the next leat guessed.
When you're a sports fan, you see GOAT a lot. I have mostly seen it associated with Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and a few times with Mariano Rivera, though for him it is GOAT not of an entire professional sport, like MJ and the Great One, but of his position.
Wayne Gretzky played hockey in the 80's and 90s (best known for his play with the Edmonton Oilers and LA Kings)and he is considered to be the greatest hockey player of all time. Mariano Rivera was a baseball pitcher (closer to be specific) with the Yankees in the 90s-2000s and only retired a few years ago.
All depends on WHEN... Yes, his original name was David Dwight, but his mother changed it to Dwight David when he was young, to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the household (his father's name was David Jacob Eisenhower).
Just to be annoying, I'm going to point out that ER could also be endoplasmic reticulum. But no one is going to guess that first unless they were just studying for a biology test.
I remember it though! (man that was nearly exactly 20 years ago.. :/ never once have had to use it since and might actually be the first time I have seen it mentioned again though. But I think it was in my mind for a looong time occasionaly popping up, because it had a rhythm and a flow to it..
Never heard GOAT before, but it was actually guessable with a bit of thinking. I was gonna complain it's too sports centered (2 questions with the same subject!), but since I got those right I guess I can't? VIN remained a mystery, though having seen the answer it shouldn't have been as hard as it was.
Nope, I'm a grandma. I was thinking of the arcade game my kids used to play in the '80s, but after looking it up I realized it was actually called "Hero in the Castle of Doom". I always heard them call it just "Castle of Doom".
How come Inland isn't also accepted for IRS? Inland Revenue Service is the UK IRS! Takes me absolutely ages to get "Internal" even though I paid enough to them when I was living there for a while.
This quiz, although fun, includes many more examples of initialisms than acronyms. It's an acronym when the letters are pronounced as a word (i.e. NASA, GOAT). An initialism, as most of these are, is when you say the individual letters, as opposed to making them a word. FDR, despite being a common nickname for him, is neither as it is just the initials of a person, although that's semantics at that point
I like the quiz, but it seems like previous comments are correct; this quiz is made up mostly of words that are NOT acronyms. I think GOAT, POTUS, and VIN are the only acronyms in the list. For all the others, you just say the letters, knowing what they stand for. If a deceased person came into a hospital, you wouldn't say, "He was dougha".
Yep these are not acronyms. Some words we use daily are acronyms and we don't even realise it, RADAR, BASE of basejumping etc. If you can't pronounce it as a word it's not an acronym.
Please to work out the difference between an acronym and an abbreviation? The former is a subset of the latter. You could always look up the definition in OED (which, btw, like btw, is an abbreviation, not an acronym)
Also Brigham Young is not very famous internationally...