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Just to nitpick, if you're not a native english speaker MS may not even mean multiple sclerosis to you. In my language the acronym would be "SM".

Later edit: and I've never seen the name of the disease acronymed, it's always been in full.



I'm Dutch and we know it as MS, as we also call it Multiple sclerose [1], so I wasn't aware of that.

Good nitpick :)

[1] https://www.hersenstichting.nl/hersenaandoeningen/multiple-s... <-- I know that sourcing this is a bit much, but I figured that some of you non-Dutch speakers might feel whimsical enough to look at some Dutch text for funzies. Or maybe it's just me who looks at random texts of other languages O:)


Good point, had no idea what was MS until I read the comments. In my language it's "esclerose múltipla", and have never seen it acronymed.


Well, in my native language SM is something _very_ different. :)


In French this is obviously different than elsewhere: SEP.




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