Recursive Acronym

Here are some examples of RecursiveAcronyms:

• GNU - Gnu's Not Unix
• Pine - Pine Is Not Elm
• MINCE - MINCE is not complete EMACS
• PHP - PhpLanguage (after going through some name changes)
• TheGimp - once was 'The Gimp Image Manipulation Program' but now is 'The GNU Image Manipulation Program'. So the GnuProject doesn't only create a lot of RecursiveAcronyms, some are also destroyed because of it.

Pine is actually "program for internet news & email". See http://www.washington.edu/pine/

The GnuHurd probably is the first software to be named by a pair of mutually RecursiveAcronyms:

• Hurd - HirdOfUnixReplacingDaemons
• Hird - HurdOfInterfacesRepresentingDepth