Offenses of the Month, Winter-Spring 2024

SA, SA (“Stand Aside, Special Acronym”) or More Adventures in Polysemy

A shout-out to a favorite topic: the snare of the polysemous in the contemplation of the over-squeamish.

This winter the SA at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., was renamed SGA. Whether or not this particular change reflects a broad trend I can’t say, but GWU isn’t the first university