Released September 6, 2022 (build 46.8.21)
Library: Improved actions and information
All Users: Options, menus, and info panels in Library have been updated to be more intuitive for users and provide more transparency on permission-based actions.
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TOTAL: 91 bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.
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Release cycle theme: Jostle: A to Z
H is for Help
Did you know that "SOS", the letters used in the international call for help, originally never stood for anything? Most people think they were derived from "Save Our Ships", but it's actually the other way around. "Save Our Ships" was added afterwards to give meaning to "SOS". And that's what makes "SOS" a backronym - an acronym formed by taking an already-existing word and expanding its letters to represent words of a phrase.
Back when telegraphs and Morse code were used to communicate across countries and overseas, operators choose "S-O-S" to indicate distress because the three short dots for "S" and three longer dashes for "O" made it an easy code to transmit and recognize. It was mostly likely due to the prominent use of Morse code by ships at sea that transmitting "S-O-S" became linked to nautical distress, such as ships that are in danger of sinking, and thus, the backronym was created.
Backronyms have become increasingly common over the years. Comic book creators in particular are very fond of them (it's practically a sub-genre at Marvel, whose fictional government agency "S.H.E.I.L.D." has been backronymed three different times over the years). But one of my favourite backronyms has to be the one coined by NASA. "Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill", is what they came up with to justify naming a treadmill on the International Space Station after late-night talk show host Stephen COLBERT.
Well played, NASA (...and here's to hoping we never have to re-backronym SOS to stand for "Save Our Spaceships").