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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

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

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

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

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A bit like how we used to call the CCCP the USSR?
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  The official name for the country was “Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas”, hence URSS
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    You sure the official name wasn’t spelled in Cyrillic instead of Latin With Dumb Shit Over It?

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