RAS syndrome
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Etymology
Coined by science magazine New Scientist in 2001.[1]
Noun
- (lexicography, humorous) Redundant acronym syndrome syndrome, a tautology in which one or more words that make up an acronym or initialism are used redundantly in conjunction with said abbreviation.
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References
- ^ “Feedback”, in New Scientist, 2001 May 7, archived from the original on 2016-03-09, retrieved 2021-06-23:
- A couple of weeks ago we reported on Microsoft’s “NT technology”, which we wrongly assumed meant “New Technology technology”. Our thanks to reader Iain Broadfoot, who points out that it actually means “Northern Telecom technology”, after the people who originally developed it. But that hasn’t stopped reader Ernest Ager sending a string of examples of that must henceforth be known as RAS syndrome—where “RAS” stands for “redundant acronym…”—yes, you’ve guessed the rest.