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Giorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricity (www.politico.eu)

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s… not going to happen lol

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why not?

The headline is misleading. They just want to change the Italian word for volt to Volta, since that was the man’s actual name in his native Italian

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Not the person you replied to but I imagine the SI will not change the name, and so scientists will not use "volta", so Italian schools will not want to each "volta".

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I don’t think there will be much difference, since an Italian teacher would already pronounce volt as volt-a.