am i the only one who thinks “volta” sounds much much worse as a unit? Like, there’s a reason people say “amp” instead of “ampere”, we don’t like saying needlessly long words all the time.
Even if you change the official name i’m almost certain it’ll just get shortened back down.
It’s him it’s named after anyway, so I can see the logic in them wanting to do that.
Kind of weird it hasn’t been called that all along.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Volta
am i the only one who thinks “volta” sounds much much worse as a unit? Like, there’s a reason people say “amp” instead of “ampere”, we don’t like saying needlessly long words all the time.
Even if you change the official name i’m almost certain it’ll just get shortened back down.
In my country nobody says Amp, we all say Ampere, an Volta sounds absolutely fine, IDK why it was anglicized?
Imagine looking for a Philip screwdriver.
Here’s the flipping screwdriver. 🪛
Not that that’s a flat! I said PHILIP not flipping!
Thank god it’s Philips with an s. 🙏
But what you really wanted was a pozidriv
An even better question is “Why would countries not be allowed to localize standardized words for their own languages?”
Would it seriously be a problem if Italy used “volta” and the U.S. used “volt”?
Has it been a problem with France using “litre” and Italy and Spain using “litro” and the U.S. using “liter”?