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Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 2:40
Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:

> > Troll: what does "ISO" stand for? > > International Organization for Standardization, no matter where in the > world you are. Why do English acrynoms switch around like that?
Usually they don't; this one is a deliberate avoidance of the English form.
> `Order of Australia' becomes `AO'
Perhaps this represents a Latin form? What's really weird are the Latinized abbreviations for the English counties: Salop for Shropshire, e.g. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan