RAS Syndrome– Documenting the misuse of acronyms

Archive for the ‘PIN Number’ Category

RAS Syndrome: Number Edition

Posted by: rassyndrome on: September 14, 2008

Henley Standard
Back Seat Driver is on sale at Amazon.co.uk or Waterstones online, or from most bookshops. The ISBN number (International Standard Book Number Number) is 978-1-906710-08-8.
Financial News & Daily Record
Usage of the Florida Bar’s Web site continues to climb – and most Bar members have a PIN number (Personal Identification Number Number) for the site [...]

RAS Syndrome: Numbers Edition

Posted by: rassyndrome on: September 6, 2008

Department of Social and Family Affairs (Ireland, on a form that Irish citizens can fill out to receive benefits)
PPSN Number (Personal Public Service Number Number)
The Tech
[Ed.- This is a somewhat unusual example, in that the headline avoids RAS Syndrome, but the article suffers from it.  It's typically the other way around.]
Headline: Textbook Information Available On [...]

RAS Syndrome: Financial Edition

Posted by: rassyndrome on: September 2, 2008

Hartford Courant
Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man they say tried to break into an ATM machine (Automated Teller Machine Machine) at the CNG Employees Federal Credit Union.
The Guardian
You shred every document containing your details, you guard your pin number (Personal Identification Number Number) from shoulder surfers, and even your partner [...]

RAS Syndrome for 08/26/08

Posted by: rassyndrome on: August 26, 2008

Inquirer Network
UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS) describes “low prevalence countries” as those with less than one percent of the general population infected with the HIV virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus Virus).
Peterborough Today
They carried in oxyacetylene cutting equipment and used to melt the hinges off a door in the back of an ATM machine [...]