2023-09-01 13:53:39
The set of four numbers and three letters placed on the front and rear of the vehicles, make up your license plate. This component is equivalent to the ‘identity card’ of the car because, thanks to the license plates, the vehicle can be identified, to whom it belongs, the type of fuel or the date of registration, among other data.
This is usually used especially by the offices and traffic wardensso that it is easier and faster to identify a vehicle and its owner in the event of a violation or accident, as well as other irregularities.
As is well known, for more than 20 years a specific system has been used to create the new license plates that are needed. The method consists of a combination of numbers and letters in alphabetical order and sequential, varying the last three from right to left.
According to the DGT (General Directorate of Traffic) and dieselogasolina.com, the latest combinations that emerged in August were MJW, MJX, MJY and MJZ. That is why for this month of September it is expected that the license plates with the letters will begin to be seen MKB, starting with a new consonant secondly, according to how cars are sold.
But why don’t new registrations start with A if it is the first letter of the alphabet? But the real question is,Why don’t we see any vowels on the license plates? Since we changed from the method that indicated the first two letters of the province of vehicle registration? We’ll tell you then.
The curious reason why car license plates do not have vowels in Spain
In September 2000 we were able to see the license plates with the new format, suitable for the rest of the countries of the European Union. Thus, they started from the BBB combination to the ZZZ. What was missed and attracted attention was that they were not usedto A, E, I, O and neither the Uthat is, none of the vowels.
The reason why it was decided to exclude them from the license plates of Spanish cars was to avoid the formation of combinations that would give rise to obscene, profane or inappropriate wordssuch as ‘YEAR’, ‘PIS,’ or ‘PEO’.
In the same way, it was also intended to prevent the formation acronym existing ones such as ‘UN’, ‘PCE’ or ‘ONG’, and even that own names as could perfectly happen with ‘ANA’ or ‘EVA’.
But these are not the only ones ‘forbidden’ letters on license plates in Spain. The Ñ, the Q and the combinations L and QU are also left out. The reason is to avoid confusion with other letters, in addition to favoring reading throughout Europe, where the use of the Ñ is not contemplated.
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