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.
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