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Autological word.
A word is autological or homological if it describes itself.

The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive acronym/ metacronym/ recursive definitioninitialism, this is a fun way to coin new names for new programming languages and such.

[coming up..RPM, PHP and YAML were originally conventional initialisms which were later redefined recursively. I am gonna fill this
GNU — GNU's Not Unix
KDE — KDE Desktop Environment
PHP — PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PINE — PINE Is Nearly Elm, originally; PINE now officially stands for "Pine Internet News and E-mail"
RPM — RPM Package Manager !](originally "Red Hat Package Manager")
SPARQL — SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language
Wine — Wine Is Not an Emulator
YAML — YAML Ain't Markup Language (initially "Yet Another Markup Language")

and of course,
VISA - VISA International Service Association

Autological word.
A word is autological or homological if it describes itself.

The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive definition, this is a fun way to coin new names programming languages and such.

[coming up... I am gonna fill this !]

Autological word.
A word is autological or homological if it describes itself.

The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive acronym/ metacronym/ recursive initialism, this is a fun way to coin names for new programming languages and such.

RPM, PHP and YAML were originally conventional initialisms which were later redefined recursively.
GNU — GNU's Not Unix
KDE — KDE Desktop Environment
PHP — PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PINE — PINE Is Nearly Elm, originally; PINE now officially stands for "Pine Internet News and E-mail"
RPM — RPM Package Manager (originally "Red Hat Package Manager")
SPARQL — SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language
Wine — Wine Is Not an Emulator
YAML — YAML Ain't Markup Language (initially "Yet Another Markup Language")

and of course,
VISA - VISA International Service Association

added 184 characters in body
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Kris
  • 37.6k
  • 6
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  • 165

Autological word.
A word is autological or homological if it describes itself.

The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive definition, this is a fun way to coin new names programming languages and such.

[coming up... I am gonna fill this !]

Autological word.
A word is autological or homological if it describes itself.

[coming up... I am gonna fill this !]

Autological word.
A word is autological or homological if it describes itself.

The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive definition, this is a fun way to coin new names programming languages and such.

[coming up... I am gonna fill this !]

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Kris
  • 37.6k
  • 6
  • 60
  • 165

Autological word.
A word is autological or homological if it describes itself.

[coming up... I am gonna fill this !]