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  • We had a similar situation at a hospital IT department I worked in about 10 years ago. We had been given a grant for Computers on portable platforms so Nurses could take the computer with them and update records as they needed live and during the moment. The acronym they came up with to describe them was COW aka Computers On Wheels. Someone got insulted about this and I am thinking it was because this hospital is in a dairy farming area and some poor farmers daughter got hurt by it somehow?? So the IT department was told to called them WOW from that day on aka Workstations on Wheels. So trivial but yet so controversial and time wasted was the biggest issue for us as we had to go around and pull the names off and put all new labels on them for inventory. So instead of COW-01 and so forth ,it was WOW-01 and so on.