international standards organisation coding should be the protocol

different organisations sometimes make it up as they go along though e.g. olympics committee and the media

the ISO coding ensures that each country has a unique abbreviated form and settles potential disputes between similarly monikered nations such as slovakia and slovenia (SI and SK)

it's similarly annoying when sky abbreviate the first three letters of some teams and then go random for others. i cannot think of an example though.

Posted By: Tombs on August 4th 2012 at 15:07:50

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I don't understand (Other Sports) - Sugbad The Bad, Aug 4, 15:00:36
- Really we should be "BEST". Or "TOP". (Other Sports) - Old Man, Aug 4, 15:33:05
- international standards organisation coding should be the protocol (Other Sports) - Tombs, Aug 4, 15:07:50
  - Wouldn't work, Jersey nationals compete for GBR..etc (n/m) (Other Sports) - Vivid Data Shark, Aug 4, 15:26:17
  - ISO 3166-1 if you ever get asked in a pub quiz (n/m) (Other Sports) - Tombs, Aug 4, 15:12:37
    - blimey it`s true (Other Sports) - emmaroyds, Aug 4, 15:28:58
    - each country also has a numeric code, ours is 826 (Other Sports) - Tombs, Aug 4, 15:17:03
      - International Organization for Standardization (ISO), (Other Sports) - Hendrikos, Aug 4, 15:21:59
        
        frenchies fucked up the acronym (Other Sports) - Tombs, Aug 4, 15:23:43
        
        Stupid Fucking Frogs? (n/m) (Other Sports) - Old Man, Aug 4, 15:32:22
- It's an IOC thing.... (n/m) (Other Sports) - Vivid Data Shark, Aug 4, 15:05:12
  - Here, let me google that for you... (Other Sports) - Vivid Data Shark, Aug 4, 15:06:19
  - Oh (n/m) (Other Sports) - Sugbad The Bad, Aug 4, 15:05:59
- I don't know (n/m) (Other Sports) - Charles21, Aug 4, 15:03:15
  - me niether (n/m) (Other Sports) - emmaroyds, Aug 4, 15:04:32
    - it's an IOC thing. have a word with Vivid, he'll sort it out for you (n/m) (Other Sports) - Sugbad The Bad, Aug 4, 15:11:13

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