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Does anyone find it weird that the General Conference of Weights and Measures has acronym CGWM instead of GCWM?
by ZhangSWEFAANG 4y ago
Does anyone find it weird that the General Conference of Weights and Measures has acronym CGWM instead of GCWM?
- akyshnik 4y agoIt's CGPM, from French "Conférence générale des poids et mesures"
- dredmorbius 4y agoThis is also fairly common on international bodies' initialisms for which there are multiple official languages, to not favour any one of them. "ISO" is the International Organization for Standardization, in English, Organisation internationale de normalisation in French, and Международная организация по стандартизации in Russian, its three official languages, as one fairly well-known example.