• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      3 days 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.