When I started work in BT's payroll systems in the '80s (user input via PRIDE - Payroll & Related Information Data Entry and payroll calculated via PARIS - Payroll And Related Information Systems), the other coders would entertain us with tales of the acronyms / abbreviations used on other system. Apparently, they very nearly managed to sneak through Pay & Electronic National Insurance System.
https://www.epa.gov/ust/leaking-underground-storage-tanks-corrective-action-resources not a paper, but this always gave me a startle
When I started work in BT's payroll systems in the '80s (user input via PRIDE - Payroll & Related Information Data Entry and payroll calculated via PARIS - Payroll And Related Information Systems), the other coders would entertain us with tales of the acronyms / abbreviations used on other system. Apparently, they very nearly managed to sneak through Pay & Electronic National Insurance System.
This is a favourite
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/copperNTs.pdf
I'm sure this was quite deliberate: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1677439 - Proton‐Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy