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A Romance language thing. In Spanish it's more obvious as it's more commonly used. If you have a plural noun the acronym has double letters. The United States is rendered as EEUU (Estados Unidos, pluraled) or The Olympic Games as JJ OO (Juegos Olimpicos, pluraled).


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