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Fun fact: there's a theory that the word "cabal" was originally an acronym formed from the last names of Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley and Lord Lauderdale, a group of ministers for King Charles II of England (it may just be that the word became popular because of this acronymic coincidence). So in your example, it would be an obsasp.
obscsp if going purely by last names then
It's not purely last names, though. The Duke of Buckingham's last name was Villiers but he was commonly called "Buckingham". AOC most commonly goes by "AOC" so the "a" works.
Right, I think the of system kinda makes you forget these people have real names too. I certainly often do
Anyway apparently the word comes from the hebrew kaballah which is sad
Antisemitism!
Oh I only meant sad because that discredits the fun origin story lol