Backronyms

Did you know that LASER is an acronym? It stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (I'm not making this up).

Actually, lots of common words started as acronyms (I might be making this up).

Word Backronym
PHONE Personal Handheld Operator for Networking and Entertainment
BOTTLE Beverage Organization Tool for Transporting Liquid Easily
DRONE Digital Remote Object for Navigating Everywhere
HOSPITAL Healing Organization Supporting Patients In Treatment and Lifecare
AIR Ambient Inhalable Reservoir
CHAIR Comfortable Human Apparatus In Repose
COMPUTER Common Operating Machine Particularly Used for Task Execution and Retrieval
SLEEP Subconscious Limbo Enabling Energy Preservation
COFFEE Caffeine Offering Fast Fatigue Elimination Effect
HOME Habitation Offering Maximum Ease
TREE Tall Renewable Environmental Element
WATER Wet And Transparent Essential Resource
MUSIC Melodious Universal Sound Inspiring Creativity
LIGHT Luminous Illumination Guiding Human Travel
ROAD Route Offering Accessible Destinations
PENCIL Portable Element for Noting, Creating, Illustrating Legibly
PAPER Processed Arboreal Pulp Enabling Recording
ETHAN Enigmatic Thinker Harboring Amazing Notions
ETHAN Excessively Talkative, Horribly Annoying Nuisance

~Ethan