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		jacobush on March 29, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lwan, a high-performance web server with Lua suppo... Technically, I think that's a recursive acronym. Backcronym is when something has a name and you after the fact make it into an acronym.

draven on March 29, 2016 [–]

According to the FAQ it was suggested a posteriori, so technically it's a recursive backronym!

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