An acronym needs no definition. You know what it is. But can you name a backronym? Backronym is backwards + acronym (portmanteau), which means that the acronym came first and the phrase it "represents" came later. A pure backronym is derived from a root word that was not an acronym. Sometimes, they are apronyms if they reference themselves. An anacronym replaces an old definition of an acronym. And my favorite backronym is the recursive type: PINE.
Spork is a portmanteau.
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