Student writers are often taught that acronyms should also be given in expanded form on first use. While this is a good rule of thumb in my opinion, there is an exception for any acronym whose expansion the author believes to be misleading about its referent, particularly when the acronym in question seems to have been coined after the fact and purely for the creator’s amusement.
“Many such cases.”
An author-date citation may be preferable to spelling out the silly acronym.
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