On 7/29/2006 James Cain wrote:
> Curiously, their article did not mention the origin of the name, but they
> rebirthed "CRUD" as
> an acronym -- Continuous Unwanted Random Disturbances." Those were the days
> when QST had a sense of humor. This
> was what my physics professor would have called "reverse engineering" --
> start with the acronym and find words to
> fit it.
In computers we call this a "backronym"
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