HYDRANYM No. 12

by The Editors

by The Editors

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THE RULES

Create an ENTERTAINING and APT acronym from the letters provided. Use only the initial letters—use all of them, and in the order shown.

If there is a theme specified, your HYDRANYM should refer to it in some way. For example if the theme were

STRINGS

and the letters were

S O M F F

a possible submission would be:

Sound of Music's favorite fastening

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