So check out this gem a coworker just found. All I could think is, “I hope someday I can create an acronym like “ASS” and get it published, in the title no less.” I had to see if it was legit so I went to the journal and found the intended title. Unfortunately, Ass Inhibition doesn’t really exist – it looks like it was just a typo.
But then what happened? Did the editors miss a big “Ass” in the title?! A little bit of detective work uncovered that the authors are from Germany and over there they have that little symbol that stands for two S’s in English (ß) BUT, unfortunately for them, also looks like a beta. So a beta turned into a ß turned into SS thereby creating ASS. Funny.
