# Misinterpreted thread titles **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [January 17, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360 "2023-01-17T17:58:45Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 269
### Author: ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink) #### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360/269 "2025-09-23T10:58:13Z")
I opened this thread… > [@ISO currency codes that just happen to work out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iso-currency-codes-that-just-happen-to-work-out/1023326): > > This is a pointless observation I’ve made (others have too, probably) which I think could be just the thing for the SDMB. The ISO currency code for the Russian ruble is RUB. This looks unimpressive until you realise that the first two letters in an ISO currency code always represent the country, and the third letter is then for the currency. So the RU in RUB doesn’t stand for ruble, it stands for Russia. It just happens to work out, by a fortunate coincidence, that these letters are also the fi… …to see why its OP was in search of currency codes. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-thread-titles/978360)._