Here
are a few names that you probably did not know they really were
acronyms.
PAM (cooking spray) stands for Product of Arthur Meyerhoff.
NECCO (wafers) stands for New England Confectionery Company.
Smart Car (a collaboration between Swatch and Mercedes), is
short for Swatch + Mercedes + Art.
The USA PATRIOT Act stands for Uniting and Strengthening America
by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and
Obstruct Terrorism. (a real mouthful)
TIME (magazine) stands for “The International Magazine of
Events.”
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to
tell Computers and Humans Apart.
Arby’s is a play on RB, for the chain’s founders, the Raffel
brothers.
A&W stands for its founders, (Roy) Allen and (Frank) Wright.