More Scrabble Traps

[uzbradistan]

As a follow-up to an earlier entry, I've since thought of another four words that are spelled identically to their proper noun counterparts, only without the initial uppercase letter, and could conceivably lure someone into challenging you on their validity, if you played them in a game of Scrabble

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[uzbradistan]

It just occurred to me now to ask: why is "gram centimeters-squared per second-squared" being abbreviated as "CGS" instead of "GCS"?

[uzbradistan]

Wow, did I already tell you that I had Rowlett as a teacher at UNC (for combinatorics)? Best math teacher I ever had, bar none.

Thanks for the explanation of CGS; Rowlett's page does help explain why someone decided we needed "Metric, only smaller".