diff --git a/src/near_dupe.c b/src/near_dupe.c
index 1ca39184..037e3f2e 100644
--- a/src/near_dupe.c
+++ b/src/near_dupe.c
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ cstring_array *name_word_hashes(char *name, libpostal_normalize_options_t normal
         add_double_metaphone_or_token_if_unique(acronym, strings, unique_strings, ngrams);
     }
 
-    if (sub_acronym_with_stopwords->n > 0) {
+    if (sub_acronym_no_stopwords->n > 0) {
         acronym = char_array_get_string(sub_acronym_no_stopwords);
         log_debug("final sub acronym no stopwords = %s\n", acronym);
         add_double_metaphone_or_token_if_unique(acronym, strings, unique_strings, ngrams);