"Naztazia" > wrote in message
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> EEUU = Estados Unidos. Spanish for the United States. They double
> the letters because "estados" (states) EE - is plural - and the
> "unidos" (united) part - UU - is a plural adjective that describes the
> plural states. Hence EEUU.
>
> - Naz
>
> On Nov 27, 11:36 pm, (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
>> That one makes sense, but someone please tell me why EEUU is
>> the United States.


The explanation must be that in the Spanish language, they have words for
"United States" as they have words for 'Spain.'

EEUU are the letters/abbreviations in the Spanish language for their
abbreviation of the 'United States.' and the double letters used as
described above.

Dee Dee