Auto Descriptive

A word, sentence, paragraph or story that describes itself - like this one.

Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single! -- LeeSallows?

• This sentence no verb.
• This sentence contains cabbage six words. -- GarethMcCaughan. (on FunnyThingsSeenInSourceCodeAndDocumentation)
• Here we have twenty-eight letters.
• Ici nous avons vingt-huit lettres.
• Hier zijn achtentwintig letters.
• Hier stehen vierunddreißig Buchstaben.

Note that 'AutoDescriptive' is an AutoDescriptive.

Also known as reflexive.

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Also known as "homological" - as opposed to "heterological", which of course is a word, etc., that does not describe itself. Needless to say, asking oneself whether the word "heterological" is heterological is unwise.

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"This song's just six words long" -- Weird Al Yankovic

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/lyrics/3233/

Similar: "Title of the Song" -- Da Vinci's Notebook

http://www.bobandtom.com/gen3/title_song_windoid.html

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See ThisIsTheTitleOfThisStory

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