NewGRF Acronyms in themselves

[Awesometrains]

what is this called when an acronym's first letter stands for itself


ex . FIRS (FIRS Industry Replacement Set)
or
CHIPS (CHIPS Has Improved Player's Stations)
or
NUTS (NUTS Unrealistic Train Set)

theres problably more , but what is this 'pattern' called?

[_dp_]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

[andythenorth]

Some people also call it 'stupid' and 'not amusing'

[Sylf]

YETI Extended Towns and Industries
FISH is SHips
RAWR Absolute World Replacement
CATS Adaptive Train Stations
DOOM Obscenely Oversized Machinery
PURR Universal Rainbow Rails
BRIX - ?
(not all these sets have been released so far)

[3iff]

I carefully avoided this problem with SPI (Stock Piled Industries). Perhaps it was because I couldn't think of anything better.

[Awesometrains]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

somehow , without searching for it , I ended up on the TARDIS Page I think it was

See Also > Circular Logic > Parodox > Casualty Loop > Time Travel > Time War > Time War (Doctor Who) > TARDIS

see , enough clicking in see also gets you to something irrelevant , if I went further I might get on a page about elephants

LOL



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Thankyou for answer , ill delete topic if nobody else makes a post today