You should write an academic paper on this, alec. Either they'll hail you as a great psychologer, or they'll have to tell you where they read about it before, which may reveal the term you seek. Win/probable win!
It's translated from Spanish, which has a slightly different structure and rhythm. It was also dictated by a blind man, so I don't know if he was in 100% charge of punctuation in the first place.
The Vault says "Tim Cain stated that he originally was going to call the "SPECIAL" system "AECLIPS"." I couldn't find any written source for that, though. I have a vague recollection that they changed the name of an attribute to get a better acronym but I could be wrong.
Edit: A little more...
Brahmin have very keen instincts. If they think a nearby gecko might just be playing dead and secretly planning shenanigans, they're not going anywhere!
Items do have size even though it's not visible in the game. You can view size and capacity numbers in the official mapper and maybe some other item/proto editors.