Every now and then, Merriam-Webster, the dictionary, drops a little piece of wisdom.
They taught me that a group of crows is called a “murder.”
They made me go “oh, really” when they revealed the origin of the word “ballot.”
And they were the first to stop the disinformation campaign against the word “news.”
And now we’re learning something about the word “snafu.”
The dictionary revealed in a viral tweet, “A ‘snafu’ is a situation marked by errors or confusion. ‘Snafu’ comes from WW2 and is an acronym for “Situation Normal, All F*cked Up.”
As this person said, it’s an “undercover swear.”
Those *not in the know* were surprised by this revelation.
“That’s quite the acronym,” one person said.
Another person joked, “My life is a ‘snafu.'”
And then a bunch of people compared it to the current state of American politics: “Good term for US governance under Donno.”