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Ornithologists should hang out with astronomers. They do the same naming scheme with telescopes. They've named some classics like the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).
Edit: a word
Don't forget the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
Relevant xkcd
Can't beat rapid unscheduled disassembly. Aka, a thing exploded
Not to mention "The Big Bang", and " Spooky Action At a Distance"
Spooky action at a distance is how Einstein called quantum entanglement. That is the official name.
H+M = A?
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope to be technical.
It's the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; the person you're replying to left out "Aperture" by mistake.
Where does the 'A' come from?
The phonetic "faiv"?