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in the ongoing acronym game, ASp whinges, "1. let's not use the acronym as a word in its expansion". I once conducted a search for a word to describe self-referential, multi-layered and/or recursive acronyms.
what can you guys come up with?
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Or DADO=DADO And DADO Only
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SPIRAL - Special Projects In Recursive Acronym Logos
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(If one may slither into that shadowy netherworld of semantics...)
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
at least I don't bleat, I merely hissss
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I'm not looking for examples or an acronym which suggests
but an aptual word to describe... <sheesh>
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<sheesh>
What! You expect people here to attualŪ answer the question you asked?<talk aboutcher sheesh>
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i figured that if you hadn't found such a word, we were going to have to make one up! and what better than an acronym! that'll teach me to be creative... 
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How bout "recursive acronym"?
Another example FRL:
NEAR=Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous
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WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator.
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WINE = Wine Is Not an EmulatorPut a CORK in it.
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Hofstadter's
Contracrostipunctus
Acrostically
Backwards
Spells
"J S BACH"
(Not to mention "GOD over Djinn")
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