The name of the salad came about in a fun way; since the cook had no official name for the salad she took the first letter of the names of everyone at the table and tried to make a word with the letters. (eatchicchicago.com)
Enos is the problem — it doesn't matter what manager we get in, we will never be successful with him, it's just a shame that he started being ok with losing, by losing the first letter of his name, then even the old board would've realised what he was. (justarsenal.com)
We call these bases and usually refer to them by the first letter of their name. (science-sparks.com)