Usually people using the acronym daily process it as a single concept not even consciously thinking it's a compound term. Look at yourself: you used "Cobol" ins

Usually people using the acronym daily process it as a single concept not even consciously thinking it's a compound term. Look at yourself: you used "Cobol" instead of "common business-oriented language" [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL