... I say CHIPPERS.
I'm sure that, before you found this site, you had to wade through lots of Google links for the Los Angeles Clippers and various pieces of personal grooming equipment. So I wondered if a more distinctive acronym could be squeezed out of Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation with Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids. Fortunately, there are many web-sites out there to help with forming acronyms. I used Acronym Creator which worked pretty well.
As I used the same words which make up CLIPPERS as input, some of the results are quite contrived, or don't use all of the terms properly. Still, some of the better ones (which I have adapted slightly) were:
CHIPPERS
Chronic lympHocytic Inflammation with Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids
CRIPES
ChRonic lymphocytic Inflammation with Pontine perivascular Enhancement responsive to Steroids
CaLIPERS
Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation with Pontine perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids
CHIMERaS
CHronic lymphocytic InflaMmation with Pontine perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids
fLaPPERS
chronic Lymphocytic inflammation with Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids
CaROLINES
ChROnic Lymphocytic INflammation with pontine perivascular Enhancement responsive to Steroids
CyCLOPS
ChroniC LymphOcytic inflammation with Pontine perivascular enhancement responsiv to Steroids
CavaLIERS
Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation with pontine perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids
Perhaps inevitably, none of these trip off the tongue quite as well as CLIPPERS. So we are probably stuck with it, at least until someone renames it Pittock-Keegan Syndrome ....
Read other articles in this series at Living With CLIPPERS.
Living With CLIPPERS by Bill Crum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
