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2026-04-06 08:17 UTC
@peterbrown One tiny mistake: BYD wasn't called Build Your Dream back in the 1990s. It's Chinese name is 比亚迪, since the first office was located in 亚迪 road, and they had to add a prefix to distinguish themselves from another company there. Bi ya di. The latin transliteration became shortened to BYD, and that then got a backronym. But that was later.
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@peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2026-04-06 10:45
@forthy42 I did think it was a little strange that it had been named in English