The banned license plates of cars that can’t drive on the road (and why)

If you’re a curious person, chances are you’ve noticed the following quirk: the
license plates in Spain they have no vowels. This is determined by the identification code followed by vehicles registered in Spain, which combine four digits, from 0000 to 9999, and three letters starting with BBB and ending with ZZZ.

The main reason for this subscription system is to allow the possibility of generating
bad words or inappropriate by the acronyms and combinations formed by these three letters that appear on vehicle registration plates. However, these are not the only ones
letters vetoed in Spanish license plates.

With the entry into force of the current
registration system In the year 2000, letters and numbers that could cause misunderstandings or form inappropriate words were eradicated (some examples could be ANO, PIS, ETA…). Thus, this code does not allow the above vowels, to which are added other letters that can cause problems in identifying a vehicle.

This is the case with letters like
the Ñ and the Q, which are prohibited in the registration code. The reason for the ban on these letters on car plates is that they can cause confusion due to their
resemblance to letters such as N or Owhich can cause difficulties in identifying a vehicle by its license plate.

Other letters that cannot be part are
the CH and the LLwho were rejected with the intention that they could not form
four-character license plates. In addition, when this code came into effect, the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language had already excluded these characters from the alphabet as they were considered digraphs.

In this way, nine letters of the alphabet are excluded from Spanish license plates:
A, CH, E, I, LL, , O, Q Y
OR.

Source: La Verdad

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