Dear @JimBiardCics 
Yes, I agree that many projected coordinate systems look somewhat like 
east-north, but not all of them, for example stereographic. CF also allows 
rotated pole, which is not true east-north by construction, and and indeed any 
sort of X and Y grid with 2D lat and lon, such as the ocean tripolar grid, 
which is east-north for a lot of the world, but variably distorted north of a 
certain latitude as it approaches its two north poles. In such cases it would 
be misleading to label X and Y as east and north, I feel.
Jonathan

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