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Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. (www.commondreams.org)
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The president of Mexico on Thursday expressed hope that Google "reconsiders" its decision to change its online maps to reflect U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that he has the authority to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

Shortly after taking office, Trump issued an executive order announcing he was changing the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America.

For U.S. users of Google Maps, the gulf was listed as the Gulf of America as of Thursday. Google, whose CEO attended Trump's inauguration along with other tech moguls, said last month it has "a long-standing practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources."

But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Thursday that her government "will file a civil suit" against Google if it does not revert back to labeling the international body of water the Gulf of Mexico.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 183 points 1 week ago (6 children)

TIL…

The abbreviation E.E.U.U. (often written as EE. UU.) stands for Estados Unidos (United States) in Spanish. This abbreviation follows a grammatical rule in Spanish where doubling the initial letters of each word indicates plurality

So you taught me something today I did not know. Thank you!!

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

See, I learned this in Spanish class in my American high school, and I don't think that linguistic fact stuck with me! Thanks

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

That rule existed in Portuguese as well, but they dropped that as indication of plurality is just... wasteful

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interestingly (or not) it's also used in French but only in one case that I'm aware of. Monsieur is abbreviated to M. while messieurs (plural) is MM.

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Oh, 2 M's touch.

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

I always wondered why it had double letters. Thank you!

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Just let our mexican and Canadian neighbors take over the USA. We've proven to be unworthy of making wise choices.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait what do they call the European Union then because that's still EU in Spanish as well.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 20 points 1 week ago

It's UE in Spanish, from Unión Europea. (Non-doubled letters because it's a single Union, there's no plural like in "States").

Sometimes people in Spain do use the English acronyms for both EU/USA, but I don't think I've seen it often. Both UE and EEUU are more common from what I've seen, and also people rarely say these out loud, it's exclusively a written language problem.