Jim Lux wrote:
Richard Clark wrote:

The reason for the initials order is that there is an hidden comma.
Universal Time, Coordinated.

Funny, thing, though, that if one searches the literature of the time
for that particular sequence of words, it never occurs..

Given that Coordinated Universal Time existed well before UTC, I suspect
that the comma thing is a post hoc creation.

Not everything is English, folks. UTC is for Universale Temps
Coordinaire. No comma is implied or needed because in French, an
adjective follows the word it modifies, with very few exceptions.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Roy Lewallen wrote in
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Not everything is English, folks. UTC is for Universale Temps
Coordinaire. No comma is implied or needed because in French, an
adjective follows the word it modifies, with very few exceptions.

Then wouldn't it be Temps Universale Coordinaire?

Owen

Owen Duffy wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote in
:

Not everything is English, folks. UTC is for Universale Temps
Coordinaire. No comma is implied or needed because in French, an
adjective follows the word it modifies, with very few exceptions.

Then wouldn't it be Temps Universale Coordinaire?

Good point. This should be reported to the French language police!

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Roy Lewallen wrote in
:

Owen Duffy wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote in
:

Not everything is English, folks. UTC is for Universale Temps
Coordinaire. No comma is implied or needed because in French, an
adjective follows the word it modifies, with very few exceptions.

Then wouldn't it be Temps Universale Coordinaire?

Good point. This should be reported to the French language police!

Roy Lewallen, W7EL


Roy, I think that as others have posted, it is neither English nor
French, but a *******isation that doesn't concede either language to be
the better for expressing the meaning. The diplomacy aspect of striking
standards no doubt!

Owen