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Giorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricity
(www.politico.eu)
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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The headline is misleading. They just want to change the Italian word for volt to Volta, since that was the man’s actual name in his native Italian
Not the person you replied to but I imagine the SI will not change the name, and so scientists will not use "volta", so Italian schools will not want to each "volta".
I don’t think there will be much difference, since an Italian teacher would already pronounce volt as volt-a.