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Can anyone explain to me why the abbreviation in Spanish for the United States is 2 e's and 2 u's? I have always wondered about this.
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It comes from a grammar rule in Latin, i.e., that plural abbreviations are written with double letters. We have one of these remaining in English: when we abbreviate "pages," as in "see pp. 12-15."
Too bad American schools no longer teach Latin and Greek...
Los Estados Unidos
plural, therefore 2 EE's & 2 UU's
In spanish simply may use the initials (Estados Unidos = E.U.), or USA is completly allowable too.
No, no, no. EEUU stood for the United States LONG before there was even the thought of a European Union.
Creo que es porque "EU" representa Union Europea (European Union en ingles).
My school didn't offer it. But then, it was a pretty rough school. In shop class they taught us how to make license plates, so we would have a useful skill when we went to prison.
thank you. This makes it much clearer. My hight school actually taught Latin when I attended, I just never opted to take it (as my question shows).
Sorry, I posted this before looking at the page.
I think it is because both words are plural, ie estados (two e's) and unidos (two u's)
I am not sure how that represents plural'
