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Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, claimed to have coined the name TARDIS: " I made up from the initials.

" The word TARDIS is used to describe other Time Lords ' travel capsules as well.

The Discontinuity Guide, written by Paul Cornell, Keith Topping, and Martin Day, suggests that " was a precocious young Time Lady, and her name for travel capsules caught on.

" The Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt records Susan telling the First Doctor that she gave him the idea when he was, implicitly, the " Other ".