In general, if there’s an abbreviation that doesn’t make sense given the English word, Latin being involved is a good guess.
Like the elements on the periodic table that have symbols completely different from their name, like Au, Ag, Pb, Sn, K are all from the Latin name for those elements.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
In general, if there’s an abbreviation that doesn’t make sense given the English word, Latin being involved is a good guess.
Like the elements on the periodic table that have symbols completely different from their name, like Au, Ag, Pb, Sn, K are all from the Latin name for those elements.