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Carol Haynes:
What does that stand for? Bloody ACRONYMS ?

mwb1100:
I wonder if the first recursive acronym is GNU (GNU's Not Unix) which Stallman came up with in the mid-eighties.  Anybody aware of an earlier one?

mouser:
the military seems to be the origin of many acronyms.. i would be surprised if there weren't such very old such acronyms found there.  but i'd love to know.

Carol Haynes:
SNAFU has been dated back as far as 1941 and FUBAR back to 1944 (both US Army slang now in general use)

jgpaiva:
Carol: I think mouser was asking if the army already had recursive acronyms, before the mid-eighties, not just regular acronyms.

PS: SNAFU is cool, I didn't know that one :D

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