When creating the new Australian National University in 1946, the Australian parliament can probably be forgiven for being far too polite to ever raise the suggestion that the acronym ANU may one day lead to problems.
And so it is in the year 2023, that Australia’s highest ranked university has to regularly remind people not to add a possessive ’s’ to their name in headlines, lest the web address be shortened like so:
Likewise the unfortunately named ANU Sports has to go to great lengths to make sure that their name never appears as an acrostic, or on a single line without spaces:
But the award absolutely must go to the ANU Soccer Club magazine, cheekily named ‘SCUM’ by a student in the 90s much to the ongoing horror of design teams to this day
