Why did the soviets add an extra S to their name? I don’t think Maoist standard English had been invented yet, why didn’t they just go with “United States of Russia”?

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It used to be spelled with a C in English as well — in fact there’s a conspiracy theory that the switch to spelling Korea with a K was Japan’s fault, such that Japan would appear before Korea in alphabetic country lists.