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acronyms bolster our understanding tremendously

Acronymy is a backronym dictionary that anyone can edit. I like to think of it as a massively multiplayer online collaborative word game.

Acronymy begin life in 2014 as one of the first Sandstorm apps. In 2022, I ported it to the Cloudflare Workers platform and added many new features such as definition attribution and history.

For SIGBOVIK 2023, I made a 3-minute video about Acronymy, including a discussion of Acronymy Assistant, which is a tool that can provide automatic help in backronym construction.

After we surpassed 10,000 definitions in December 2024, I made a video to illustrate some definitions from the top contributors.

If you'd like to meet other Acronymy participants, please join our Discord server!

The source code of Acronymy is hosted on Github. Please report any bugs or feature requests there.

David Renshaw