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	Recursive acronym
		A recursive acronym is an acronym which refers to itself in the expression for which it stands, similar to a recursive abbreviation.
		Recursive acronyms appeared in a Dilbert comic strip, in which Dilbert states that the TTP project refers to The TTP Project.
		A number of recursive acronyms are backronyms, which used to expand to a different string but whose expansion changed once the acronym was well-known, for one reason or another, to one which included the acronym itself.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/r/re/recursive_acronym.html (353 words)

	Recursive acronym
		A recursive acronym is an acronym which refers to itself in the expression it stands for, similarly recursive abbreviation.
		It was a hackish (and especially MIT) tradition to choose such acronyms and abbreviations which referred humorously to themselves or to other abbreviations.
		This article is based in part on the "Recursive acronym" section of the Jargon File.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/re/Recursive_acronym.html (142 words)

	Info Node: (texinfo)acronym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		`@acronym' accepts an optional second argument, intended to be used for the meaning of the acronym.
		If the acronym is at the end of a sentence, and if there is no second argument, remember to use the `@.' or similar command (Note: Ending a Sentence) to get the correct spacing.
		For instance (since GNU is a recursive acronym, we use `@acronym' recursively): @acronym{GNU, @acronym{GNU}'s Not Unix} produces: GNU (@acronym{GNU}'s Not Unix) In some circumstances, it is conventional to print family names in all capitals.
	www.nada.kth.se /cgi-bin/info?(texinfo)acronym (353 words)

	Recursion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		So a recursive meal might be potato skins, baby greens salad, chicken parmesan, and for dessert, a four course meal, consisting of crab cakes, Caesar salad, for an entrée, a four course meal, and chocolate cake for dessert, so on until each of the meals within the meals is completed.
		This one is also the second-shortest possible example of an erroneous recursive definition of an object, the error being the absence of the termination condition (or lack of the initial state, if to look at it from an opposite point of view).
		The function calls itself recursively on a smaller version of the input (n - 1) and multiplies the result of the recursive call by n, until reaching the base case, analogously to the mathematical definition of factorial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Recursion (1777 words)

	What is acronym? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: apronym, backronym, recursive acronym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frequently, acronyms are formed that use existing words (and sometimes the acronym is invented first and the phrase name represented is designed to fit the acronym).
		An acronym in which one of the letters stands for the actual word abbreviated therein is called a recursive acronym.
		An acronym whose letters spell a word meaningful in the context of the term it stands for is called an apronym.
	searchsmb.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci211518,00.html (504 words)

	PHP: General Information - Manual
		This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym.
		This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym.
		It is important to use the bug database instead of just sending an email to one of the mailing lists because the bug will have a tracking number assigned and it will then be possible for you to go back later and check on the status of the bug.
	www.php.net /manual/en/faq.general.php (338 words)

	Recursive acronym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A recursive acronym (or occasionally recursive initialism) is an abbreviation which refers to itself in the expression for which it stands.
		A recursive initialism appeared in a Dilbert comic strip, in which Dilbert states that the TTP project refers to The TTP Project (this is also a triply-redundant case of RAS syndrome).
		Recursive acronyms are not limited to computing terminology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Recursive_acronym (458 words)

	GNU-Overflow - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The recursive acronym "GNU's Not Unix" harbors a stack overflow bug that can cause the English language to crash and may allow arbitrary linguistic commands to be executed, according to a message posted on gnu.acronym.bug this morning.
		Stallman is currently hunting the error in the acronym he created over a decade ago.
		Until the bug is fixed, we urge you to download the temporary patch from your nearest mirror site and keep in mind that this process of continuous revision is what has made both free software and human language into forces to be reckoned with.
	www.gnu.org /fun/jokes/gnu-overflow.html (536 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A recursive acronym can be used to make a statement more emphatic, while still making sense.
		A book might be written which reads the same whether you read only the first letter of each chapter, or the first letter of each sentence, or the first letter of each word, or all the individual words.
		To continue expanding the first example, we would expand the acronyms OTHO and NIGHT, as, perhaps, "Otho today harvested onions," and "Night is good, heat terrible" (though these are hardly the best possible expansions).
	www.mindspring.com /~jimhenry/writ/recursiv.txt (410 words)

	Digifri - Wikifri - Guide to freedom
		The GNU project was (and still is) developing an own replacement for the UNIX-kernel known as the HURD (which is an acronym for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons" and Hird stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth".), this is a collection of servers running in userspace providing the UNIX-api.
		GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX” and was launched in 1984 by Richard M Stallman to develop a complete free UNIX style operating system.
		The GNU project was (and still is) developing an own replacement for the UNIX-kernel known as the HURD (which is an acronym for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons"), this is a collection of servers running in userspace providing the UNIX-api.
	www.digifri.org /wiki/en/guide_to_freedom?action=diff (2033 words)

	Recursive acronym - LQWiki
		A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms/abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms/abbreviations.
		These acronyms are referred to as recursive acronyms.
		More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" -- and a company with the name Cygnus, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support" (though Cygnus people say this is a backronym).
	wiki.linuxquestions.org /wiki/Recursive_acronym (159 words)

	PHP Basics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PHP (a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely used server-side, cross platform, HTML embedded scripting language.
		PHP is a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor." This is in the GNU software tradition of using recursive names.
		Using their online manual, which I cannot praise enough, I was writing working PHP code inside of two hours, and I'm not exactly a master programmer.
	www.gilesorr.com /papers/PHP (326 words)

	RAS Syndrome \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		fave recursive, pine : pine is not elm.
		And it's not recursive OR often misused, but one of my favorite 'confused' acronyms is SQL...some people pronounce it 'Sequel', but others insist you're supposed to say all the letters out.
		When the acronymic is clearly modeled after an existing word, such as the PATRIOT Act, then I suppose one could make the case.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/25854 (6946 words)

	dataisnature.com » Minara Is Not A Recursive Acronym
		Minara is a vector drawing app written in the Scheme dialect of Lisp that you can open the hood of and mess with its engine.
		It’s main advantage over typical vector drawing programs is its ability to be customised in all directions from the bottom up.
		Minara stands for “Minara Is Not A Recursive Acronym”.
	dataisnature.com /?p=253 (104 words)

	Backro Nym
		An AproNym is an acronym which means something appropriate to its expanded version, whether created back, forward or sideways, and whether or not the word was originally thought to have stood for something else as in the case of OK (see EtymologyOfOkay) or PCMCIA.
		Arnold, "a word interpreted as an acronym," not "a reinterpreted acronym;" it would seem that words or abbreviations that were never intended as acronyms are fair game here.
		It looks like, from the examples, that one is an acronym intended to look like a word and the other is an acronym intended to explain a word, but maybe they are synonyms.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?BackroNym (1062 words)

	Vino Is Not Ouzo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name takes after the tradition of recursive acronyms in the open-source world.
		GNU is a recursive acronym, meaning that the acronym can be expanded, and it includes the word that is the acronym.
		We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
	www.vinoisnotouzo.com /vino.php (247 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fact that the constellation Cygnus, the name of which is not an acronym, does not offer GNU support, whereas the company Cygnus, the name of which is the acronym under discussion, does offer GNU support, just might be a clue.
		Sadly, before any serious docs were written, it was renamed 'bonobo', since it allowed frequent mating of code objects in a variety of configurations.
		One almost-recursive acronym that comes to mind is Orrin Hatch's proposed INDUCE Act of 2004.
	volokh.com /posts/1088048209.comments.html (936 words)

	recursive acronym - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found 5 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word recursive acronym:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "recursive acronym" is defined.
		recursive acronym : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
	onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=recursive+acronym (89 words)

	Backronym - LQWiki
		A backronym (from a portmanteau of back + acronym) is a word interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended.
		Examples are given under recursive acronym (Cygnus), Acme, and mung.
		Discovering backronyms is a common form of wordplay among hackers.
	wiki.linuxquestions.org /wiki/Backronym (111 words)

	ii is for iitywybad? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Recall from an earlier column that an initialism is an acronym if it forms a pronounceable word.
		A CTY alum named Bram (presumably a Hofstadter fan) used to claim that his name stood for BRAM Recursive Acronym Man. I always wanted to develop a recursive acronym with the acronym part at the end, but the closest I've come up with is the homophonic phrase "Why, O YOU?"
		Speaking of TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms), I'm told that the US military requires (or at least used to require) that soldiers have a middle initial.
	www.kith.org /logos/words/lower2/iitywybad.html (395 words)

	PHP 4 for NetWare - API Doc
		This section describes the PHP programming language and how Novell® has implemented it on NetWare®.
		PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language that allows one to create dynamic Web pages.
		Like any other CGI language PHP can also be used to collect form data, create dynamic pages or send and receive cookie information.
	forge.novell.com /modules/xfref_library/detail.php?reference_id=685 (90 words)

	Bbf: Frequently Asked Questions
		We aren’t formally affiliated, but Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman (two of our contributors) have been closely involved with the FSF.
		Our acronym isn’t recursive because we’re biological engineers, you hax0r.
		There’s no Microsoft of biological engineering, who are you guys fighting?
	bbf.openwetware.org /Frequently_Asked_Questions.html (544 words)

	Re: [nylug-talk] Linux: Origins? Recursive acronym?
		Whoever did it ought to get proper credit.
		> >> > >> Also, I came up with a possible recursive acronym: "Linux Is Not Unix, > >> eXactly".
		Was "Linux" originally an acronym like "GNU", or just > >> "Linus-s+x"?
	www.nylug.org /archive/nylug-talk/1999/msg00314.html (311 words)

	Webfroot » And the award for best recursive acronym goes to:
		Webfroot » And the award for best recursive acronym goes to:
		And the award for best recursive acronym goes to:
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	www.webfroot.co.nz /?p=1281 (91 words)

	vBulletin Community Forum - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
		PCMCIA - People Come Memorizing Computer Internet Acronyms ;)
		I've learnt something new today - recursive acronyms.
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