Except it’s also established as a common name in Galleyfreyian for a TT capsule, and the person who invented the acronym TARDIS is Susan Foreman after attending a 60s English school.
So really it makes more sense that Tardis is the common name and Susan backronymed it to explain it to the poor earthlings (coughbeing kidnappedcough).
Either that or the TaRdIs is translating an alien word into an equally alien word complete with English acronym that somehow works grammatically.
I used to get icked-out by Doctor Who as a character name, but I let it go after realising just how often it has been used either seriously or in-jokingly as an alias, as much as any name is.
I guess my biggest ick was actually the canon shipping of Rose and Ten. I may be in a minority, but I found their relationship as Rose/Nine and then Rose/Ten so power imbalanced and unhealthy that while I don’t mind acknowledging an attraction there it felt icky when the ultimate resolution was the meta-crisis Doctor being her very own 
hand-made:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Doctor toy to go off to another universe with.
It felt sloppy and a bad view of relationships in general.
As much I love Billie Piper it made me cringe how much the character was made to be raised up above so many other companions by the time of the meta-crisis too.
Let’s just all agree on the one truly correct way of referring to the TARDIS
It’s funny- I really don’t care about calling the Doctor “Doctor Who” (sometimes its just easier and funnier to say, for example, “the Sixth Doctor Who” than “the Sixth Doctor”) or spelling the name of the show as Dr Who, but I do get mildly annoyed when people don’t spell it as TARDIS. I just really don’t like “Tardis”. Can’t even explain why! The go-to explanation would be “because it’s an acronym” but I mean there’s plenty of acronyms we don’t capitalize. TARDIS just looks better to me than Tardis, although that’s probably bc that’s how I’m used to seeing it written, to be fair.
Also on the subject of ship names, one that I hate that I have never seen anyone else dislike- Twissy for Twelve/Missy. I can’t put my finger on why but I just HATE the way it sounds. And one that’s less used but I have also heard- “Twiver” for Twelve/River. I HATE it I hate the sound of it it’s so weird. Sounds like “quiver” I really don’t like it. And this I’ve seen only used a couple times but “Drose” for Doctor/Rose?? Why??? That looks and sounds horrible.
I think a solid 90% of Doctor Who ship names are really bad imo bc if it involves the Doctor it is near impossible to come up with a good sounding name that either involves the word “Doctor” or a number. I think Thasmin is the best ship name the fandom ever came up with and I’m glad because that’s the one that got written about in articles and stuff. It’s one of the most immediately understandable widely used names too, whereas you need a whole lore dump to explain where Thoschei came from and the explanation for Whouffaldi is similarly complicated (as in, not being immediately recognizable as which characters it is)
I love twissy it sounds so whimsical and fun (also a pretty top tier thoschei ship). Never seen drose, I always see timepetals for generic Doctor x Rose, which I think is a fairly cute one.
I think most ship names suck, but to me that’s part of their charm. I prefer a terrible mix of two names that is instantly understandable to a mix of two random words that could apply to a million other ships. Personally, I think I’ll stick with putting the two names next to each other and calling it a day (e.g. doctormaster).
100% agree with you. I liked Rose, but her relationship with the Doctor was all kinds of wrong.
The dartboard and reset button where various characters meet out of order and there has to be some plot device at the end to make them forget about it. The 3 and 5 Doctors were one thing but it now seems to happen constantly in the EU
Unfortunately a lot of The Diary of River Song suffers from this (reset at the end) because they want her to interact with past Doctors but it’s imperative that the Tenth Doctor doesn’t recognise her in Silence in the Library, so there are lots of resets and memory wipes and disguises.
One thing I wish they could maybe do is a whole box set with, for example River and Eight or Six, and then at the end of it he forgets - so we at least get some consistency across a few episodes.
I’m excited for The Death and Life of River Song because it carries on her story after her death, but I’m afraid they will keep doing past Doctors and so keep having to reset.
Up until BF started making a big thing out of it, like with Charley and Sixies stories, I always liked to think Time Lords trained to make specials rooms in their Sherlockian mindpalaces that could stay locked until the chronological events were right (possibly events helped by the TARDIS through the psychic circuits).
It would have been a much neater way of dealing with it and something I could see Time Lords working to perfect given how crossing your own timeline would be a downright guaranteed event, and avoiding more mind wiping than the entire Men In Black franchise combined.
One of my ick moments is when the Doctor was turned into Dobby 
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Currently, the only pre-Library Doctors that River has left to meet are the 2nd Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor, and they’ve both got perfect reasons to not remember meeting her thanks to season 6B and the Division. Though considering that the River and 9th Doctor meet up is happening within 9’s range rather than River’s, I imagine that River’s own range won’t be featuring Doctor guest appearances for a while.
I imagine with fugitive they’re probably wait until after her first boxset to cross over with any major whoniverse characters
Fugitive Doctor + River Song is the content we need 
I just thought of an ick.
The term “NuWho” - looking around there is no good explanation for why it is referred to as that.
Does “New Who” really need an abbreviation?
And phonetically wouldn’t that be pronounced as Noo-Who?
Is that not how you pronounce New Who?
I would say that there should be a stronger inflection on the W in New. The Nu I would argue would indicate a more elongated flat vowel pronunciation.
NeW Who not Noo Who.
But yeah I suppose this comes down to dialect and accents really - for me that pronunciation sounds wrong.
Quoted for absolute truth - did we get separated at birth or something.
New should be pronounced a ‘n-you’ (at least that’s how we say round these parts) - certainly would sound weird to rhyme new with moo.
Are we sure it’s not GNU Who?