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Is there a word for an acronym which spells out one of it'sits component words?

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Is there a word for an acronym which spells out one of it's component words?

The example I am thinking of is GNU, which stands for "GNU's not unix".

It may be that there are no other examples. And maybe that's the whole joke. I was just wondering.