Justice Antonin Scalia could be caustic in his dissents, but he was also known for a sharp wit that often drew laughter from Supreme Court audiences. So perhaps even he would have found humor in the commotion over the new name, announced last week, of George Mason University’s law school — the Antonin Scalia School of Law — which, as snickering observers on social media quickly pointed out, makes for a rather unflattering acronym. Hashtags poking fun at the abbreviation and variations on it took off on Twitter and Facebook almost as soon as the news was made public. The response reached the school’s dean, Henry N. Butler, and on Tuesday he wrote a letter to students, faculty members and alumni saying the school planned to make a small change in the name to achieve a more benign abbreviation.

April 5, 2016 ・ From The New York Times