Backronyms

[Fred Cisin]

> > [...] And instead of ASCII they wrote ASC2 !
>
> I would have expected ASKIE....

. . . or ASKY

I get really annoyed with those who think that it is a Roman Numeral 2.
I used to tell my students that if they were ever in a class where the
instructor called it ASCII TWO, that they should walk out then and there,
and get a refund.  That's worse than thinking that a megabyte is
2^10 * 10^3