Acronym Overloading (opens in new tab)

Happening to look at the Little Free Library at Midgely Corner today, I saw a hardbound book, VB6 by Mark Bittman\. Had I not known of Mark Bittman as a food writer for the New York Times, I might have supposed this was a book on the programming language Visual Basic 6, which commonly is known as VB6\. No doubt Bittman has interests beyond food, but VB6 has been out of support since 2008, and the book looked fairly new\. In this case, I found, \"VB6\" means \"Vegan Before 6\"\. The full title...