Re: aklug Digest V4 #26

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/recursive-acronym.html

From that (and other things gotten by googling "recursive acronym") it
looks like a tradition started at MIT.

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:50:05 -0900, bryan@ak.net <bryan@ak.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:56:43AM -0900, Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com> wrote:
> >
> > It is a paradyme shift, and so was declared 'not unix'.
> > But what wasn't unix? This new project. Following the
> > tradition of recursive acronyms, the project was given
> > the name GNU.
>
> I had thought GNU was the original recursive acronym. Does anyone
> know what started the tradition?
>
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