"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 […]