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APIO naming
By .______., history, 6 years ago, In English

Why is APIO named APIO and not APOI?

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APIO=Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad

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I think that IOI is the one that is out of the ordinary here. Look at any other science olympiad: IMO, IPhO, IChO, IBO, IPO, IAO, etc. It's not actually that wrong, International Olympiad in Informatics and International Informatics Olympiad are the same thing, except that IIO doesn't (phonetically) sound good, hence IOI.

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    But why didn't APIO follow the pattern of OI contests (To end with OI)?

    Every OI I know ends with OI except APIO.

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      6 years ago, # ^ |
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      Original name of "COI" (Croatian Olympiad in Informatics) is also "HIO".

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    Shouldn't other OIs follow the IOI naming (Olympiad in Informatics)? Our country changed the name from "Bangladesh Informatics Olympiad" to "Bangladesh Olympiad in Informatics" a couple years ago. :3

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    So is IOL (Linguistics). This is more strange, because the unshortened name is International Linguistics Olympiad.

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      Its abbreviation IOL is deliberately chosen not to correspond to the name of the organization in any particular language

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