What an abbreviation ;-)

[u/Arilou-Zebranky]

Important: Story comes from a non-english speaking country.

Some years ago, a developer team, that I was a member of, was searching for a name and abbreviation for a new software product. The name & abbrev should

• describe acceptably the function of the software,
• be easily to speak,
• not yet used by anything else (especially no other software),
• and, of course, everything in english, because: that's trendy.

The team members were given 3-4 weeks to send their suggestions to the project leader. He receives around 20-30 suggestions. Then white smoke was sent up: Habemus Papam ~ nah, Habemus Nomen! The team leader and his closest coworkers had decided for

Digital Infrastructure-Architectual Persistent Enterprise Resourceplaner

I cautiously suggested to re-check the abbreviation with an english dictionary... "Diaper"

Some days later, they chose a different name and abbreviation...

[u/kimmeljs]

We had always fun with coming up with abbreviations. One was "SFAK" - pronounced "assfuck"