Lockdown 531

Lockdown Day 531 - 8 September 2021

Today I came across the acronym of the word NEWS.

It stands for North, East, West, South. It was written on a sign outside a stationery shop. This made me wonder about acronyms and anagrams.

Acronyms are defined as an initial abbreviation which can be pronounced as a word and of which each letter represents a word describing the actual acronym. It can also be pronounced as letters such as FBI. Here are a few:

~ SCUBA = Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

~ RADAR = Radio Detecting And Ranging

~LASER = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

~ CAPTCHA (a string of characters you are often asked  to copy online to prove you are not a robot) = Completely Automated Public test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart

~ NEWSPAPER (unofficial acronym, but nevertheless brliant) = North East West South Past And Present Event Report

An anagram is a word, phrase or sentence formed from another through the rearranging of its letters, for example debit card = bad credit. If you haven't smiled today, the following anagrams might do the trick:

~ Eleven plus two = Twelve       

   plus one

~ Astronomer = Moon starer

~ School master = The classroom

~ Listen = Silent

~ A gentleman = Elegant man

~ The Morse Code = Here come dots

~ Dormitory = Dirty room

~ Slot Machines = Cash lost in me

~ Conversation = Voices rant on

~ The eyes = They see

Wordsmithing is one way of proving we have been designed with a neuroplastic brain that can think innovatively.

So tonight I fall asleep with a smile on my face, thankful for countless blessings I overlook so often.

#Ggt