On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:07:44 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
wrote:

>
>"Naztazia" > wrote in message
...
>> 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.
>
Really? double letters? Wow! I didn't know were double EU..... or
is that PU?

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