Anacronym - a word that is made up of the initial letters to describe something else but that most people have forgotten (eg BASIC - a computer language)
Acronym - as above but not forgotten - eg AIDS
Pseudonym - a false name - bit like your *Abdulmajid* or my *Jugglering*
Acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name. eg Nato or Scuba
Anacronyms are replacements of other phrases that have become obsolete, either for technological, political or marketing reasons.
Pseudonym is a fictitious name, also known as an alias, used as an alternative to a person's legal name.
Do you Mnemonic rather ?
That's a memory aid
EG Richard Of York Goes Battling In Vain
ROYGBIV
The colours of the rainbow
Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet
Not so chuck - BBC is an abbreviation. The fact that it is also an initialism does not take away from the fact that it is still an abbreviation. In other words an initialism is also an abbreviation.
dundurn,
on the subject of cartoons in New Scientist,
I remember one from about 30 years ago, in which a man had opened his "Home Clone Kit", to find a piece of paper inside with the words " Go F**k Yourself" written on it.
The actual phrase was written without censorship - times change !