I think you'd do better to save yourselves the angst and get used the misuse - it's entrenched. Move onto a bigger battle.

I do hate painful truths like this. Aren't most of the battles that we discuss on this board fairly small individually, but add up to a larger war against garbage usage? (A bit dramatic a metaphor )

On the side note I raised in my original post, about how different languages form acronyms - any experience people have in other languages with this?