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Originally Posted by getbak

"COL" (i.e., Colorado)

Google tells me that "col" is "cabbage" in Spanish, so I suspect that the browser being used has auto-translate enabled and it's somehow detecting the abbreviation for Colorado as the Spanish word for cabbage and so it's translating it. I can replicate it by going to the ESPN website and selecting "Translate this page" and choosing Spanish as the original language. If it doesn't recognize something as Spanish, it doesn't translate it, which is why it's only COL that it's doing this to.

I had this happen to me a few years ago. I would look up player stats and my browser would translate any names that were real words in their native language into English. It was so confusing for a while until I figured it out. IIRC, it was Swedish names it was doing this to and I eventually figured I had gone to a website that was in Swedish and selected "Always translate Swedish" when the translation popped up, and so the browser kept doing it any time it detected a word it thought was Swedish. Once I deselected the "Always translate" option, it stopped happening.

Okay. Wow. I'd never have guessed that.

Cool. Thanks man!