For an entire year, this man in accounts operated under the sincere belief that "WFH" stood for "work from Haryana." Where he got this, nobody knows. But he committed. Fully. Used it in emails, in messages, in conversation — "I'll be WFH tomorrow" meaning, in his mind, working from Haryana, regardless of the fact that half the people he said it to don't live anywhere near Haryana.
And nobody corrected him. For a year. Which, when you think about it, required a village of people to all independently decide not to say anything.
At first it was just funny. Then, somewhere along the way, it tipped into endearing. There was something so pure about it — this confident, slightly wrong little man announcing his Haryana-based work arrangement to a company full of people who all quietly knew and all quietly let it slide.
And now — this is the best part — we've started saying it his way. Half-jokingly, but genuinely creeping into our own vocabulary. "Yeah I'm work from Haryana tomorrow." Sitting in Bangalore, in Pune, wherever. His beautiful mistake has become team folklore, a shared inside thing, absorbed into how we talk. He was wrong for a year and somehow won. We all work from Haryana now.