What 'Scirra' stands for?

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- dimakoles
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What 'Scirra' stands for?
- TiAm
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It's actually a recursive acronym: "Scirra Creations Is Really Really Awesome"
- lucid
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i can't find the thread where the ashley answered this question, but I believe it was a portmanteau of sci- meaning knowledge, and cirrus like the cloud type.

scirrus was already taken, so it was changed to scirra

originally pronounced sir-ruh

but since everyone pronounced it skir-ruh, I believe that's the official pronunciation even among the devs
- zenox98
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The pronunciation aspect was discussed HERE and may include it's derivation, not sure :/
- Noga
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I think it's abbreviation of Ashley's statement:

Software Construct Is Real Revolution - Ashley

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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Scirra Construct Is Really Really Awesome.
- alastair
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I say it sky-rah
- Urled
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I thought it had something to do with scintilla.
- TiAm
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Scirra Construct Is Really Really Awesome.

Argh, I was so close... <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />
- dimakoles
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yeah but what in this

Scirra Construct Is Really Really Awesome.does 'Scirra' means?
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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Heh, no, Scirra was actually made up a few years ago. With some help from TiAm we managed to reverse engineer a funny acronym :)
- TiAm
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yeah but what in this

> Scirra Construct Is Really Really Awesome.does 'Scirra' means?

Read this: Wikipedia on Recursive Acronyms