We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging to bring you your non orthopedic post of the week. On Sunday the US Men’s National Team played Mexico in the CONCACAF finals. I watched the game on TeleFutura because this is the United States and in the United States we do not televise soccer games even at 3pm on a Sunday in the middle of the summer when there are absolutely no other sporting events are going on. Fortunately, TeleFutura (along with the rest of the world’s population) does not consider poker a sport and instead gleefully televises every single instance of soccer being played anywhere in the world. I am pretty sure they’d televise my DIII co-ed team before broadcasting a poker game.
Anyway, I digress.
The interesting thing about watching a soccer game on a Spanish language channel (aside from it all sounding like blah, blaH, blAH, BLAH, PELOTA GOOOOOOAAAAAL) is that the United States when spoken in Spanish is Los Estados Unidos but when written/displayed on the scoreboard it is EE.UU.
This makes no sense to me and no one I asked seemed to have any idea.
So, when your friends who live in
Spain, speak Spanish for work, grew up in
South America come up empty you ask Google.
And sure enough Google knew. . .
Question: Why is the abbreviation for Estados Unidos written EE. UU. instead of simply E.U.?
Answer: The double E and double U indicate that the letter represents a plural.
So there you GOOOOOOOO.
Oh the EE.UU. beat Mexico on Sunday in a come from behind victory to win the CONCACAF tournament. Four days later they got their hats handed to them by Argentina who figured out that the EE.UU. doesn’t actually mark anyone.
1 comment:
Seeeeeeeee??? You are branching into other topics to blog on. Which PROVES that you should be blogging! :)
And now I feel a little bit smarter since you just taught me why it's EE.UU.
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