Acronym it. This has become such a problem that it is even evaluated at the level of medical academies such as the American Academy of Dermatology. Acronyms are often taught as mnemonic devices, for example in physics the colors of the visible spectrum are said to be "ROY G. BIV" ("red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet"). They are also used as mental checklists, for example in aviation: "GUMPS", which is "Gas-Undercarriage-Mixture-Propeller-Seatbelts". Other examples of mnemonic acronyms are "CAN SLIM", and "PAVPANIC" as well as "PEMDAS". It is not uncommon for acronyms to be cited in a kind of false etymology, called a "folk etymology", for a
Lucy Newlyn (together with the students’ writing) were published in "Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice" (2003; 2004). Newlyn was poet-in-residence for "The Guardian" in November 2005. She ran university workshops on ‘The Craft of Writing’ with Christopher Ricks during his tenure as Professor of Poetry; since 2001 she has run regular writing workshops for students at St Edmund Hall. Newlyn's personal experience of Bipolar Disorder is described in her fifteen-year memoir, "Diary of a Bipolar Explorer," published by Signal Books in 2018. The book combines poetry with prose, and seeks to de-stigmatise mental illness. Lucy Newlyn Lucy Newlyn (born 1956) is