ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me

Abstract

Each year, countless hours of productive research time is spent brainstorming creative acronyms for surveys, simulations, codes, and conferences. We present ACRONYM, a command-line program developed specifically to assist astronomers in identifying the best acronyms for ongoing projects. The code returns all approximately-English-language words that appear within an input string of text, regardless of whether the letters occur at the beginning of the component words (in true astronomer fashion).

arXiv comment3 pages. Code can be installed with "pip install acronym" and is hosted on GitHub at http://github.com/bacook17/acronym

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