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An acronym whose expansion includes itself. Eg.:

[PINE]:
  [PINE] Is Not Elm
[Wine]:
  [WINE|http://www.winehq.com] is not an [Emulator]
[GNU]:
  [GNU]’s Not [Unix]
[Cygnus]:
  [Cygnus], Your [GNU] Support
Emacs:
  Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
  %%% or, Emacs Makes All Computers Slow
  %%% or, Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping (from the days when the common computer had one or two megabytes of [RAM])
  %%% or, Editing with MACroS
EINE:
  EINE Is Not EMACS
ZWEI:
  ZWEI Was EINE Initially
LIAR:
  Liar Imitates Apply Recursively
LAME:
  LAME Ain't an [MP3] Encoder
Zinf:
  [Zinf|http://www.zinf.org] Is Not [Freeamp|http://www.freeamp.org]

For the ultimate in RecursiveAcronym~s see [Hurd], a pair of mutually referring RecursiveAcronym~s!

Note that XINARA Is Not A Recursive Acronym. Perhaps it should be! (Apparently it's a town on the Tinos Islands, off Greece.) [PINARA | http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/19/13910/0511] also isn't, but that's already been suggested on [kuro5hin|http://www.kuro5hin.org]. This was the only ~[A-Z]INARA I could find in a [Google] search in this context.

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Last edited on Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:53:25 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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