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To save some Googling if you're like me and have no idea what e10s is:

Electrolysis: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/11/the-why-of-electr...



Seriously. These "enumeronyms" drive me batty.


I love this word, enumeronym, though. It seems you may have coined it, as the only Google search result is your comment. The second may well be this comment. I hope it catches on!


Google suggests that the correct term is "numeronym" [1].

> According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. By 1985, colleagues who found Jan's name unpronounceable often referred to him verbally as "S12n" (ess-twelve-en). The use of such numeronyms became part of DEC corporate culture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym




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