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Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym

AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’ve always wondered why spanish speakers online use EEUU for the US. I once asked a friend of mine and he said “that’s just the way it is”; this is a much better explanation lol

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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
A bit like how we used to call the CCCP the USSR?

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- Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The official name for the country was “Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas”, hence URSS
  
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  - captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You sure the official name wasn’t spelled in Cyrillic instead of Latin With Dumb Shit Over It?
    
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