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		aqme28 on Feb 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things unexpectedly named after people (2020) It's not actually the "ELO" system. People just think it's an acronym mistakenly and capitalize it. It's supposed to be written as just "Elo."

kmarc on Feb 22, 2024 [–]

Exactly my point. I would also enforce the accents, haha.

Especially because when I was younger, I always thought it is "élő" (living, persisting, current), as in: it's the current up-to-date valuation of someone's rank

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