Re: Posting limits

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:53:59 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

>Quoting Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:
>
>
>> (Come to think of it, German states aren't often abbreviated at all,
>> perhaps in part because they're not used in addressing things.)
>
>There's at least one exception; I see "NRW" for "Nordrhein-Westfalen"
(where I
>happen to live) all the time.
>
>                                             Andreas
NRW, Ba-Wü, Meck-Pomm are actually the only abbreviations that are actually
used in everyday speech. On the milk cartons (word?!), I guess on the
bottles as well, there is often found the official abbreviations. At least
on the milk my mom uses to buy.
As for the American abbreviations, I don't know all of them, althogh I can
guess when I'm in doubt, because I know the names of most states (but don't
know where they are on the map in most cases).

-- Carsten

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