"WHO is who it is"

Language Log 2025-02-01

Summary:

Recent events invite a reprise of the famous Abbot and Costello skit — and Josh Johnson has obliged: The skit wouldn't work for the Organisation mondiale de la Santé in French, or the Organización Mundial de la Salud in Spanish, since OMS is not a word in either language. The Russian abbreviation (ВОЗ) doesn't lend […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68222&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-is-who-it-is

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Gudgeon and gist » Language Log

Tags:

humor

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

02/01/2025, 09:43

Date published:

02/01/2025, 09:27