I always wondered why it had double letters. Thank you!
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billwashere@lemmy.world 5 months agoTIL…
The abbreviation E.E.U.U. (often written as EE. UU.) stands for Estados Unidos (United States) in Spanish. This abbreviation follows a grammatical rule in Spanish where doubling the initial letters of each word indicates plurality
So you taught me something today I did not know. Thank you!!
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just let our mexican and Canadian neighbors take over the USA. We’ve proven to be unworthy of making wise choices.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Wait what do they call the European Union then because that’s still EU in Spanish as well.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 5 months ago
It’s UE in Spanish, from Unión Europea. (Non-doubled letters because it’s a single Union, there’s no plural like in “States”).
Sometimes people in Spain do use the English acronyms for both EU/USA, but I don’t think I’ve seen it often. Both UE and EEUU are more common from what I’ve seen, and also people rarely say these out loud, it’s exclusively a written language problem.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
See, I learned this in Spanish class in my American high school, and I don’t think that linguistic fact stuck with me! Thanks
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Interestingly (or not) it’s also used in French but only in one case that I’m aware of. Monsieur is abbreviated to M. while messieurs (plural) is MM.
RippleEffect@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oh, 2 M’s touch.