Re: Posting limits

Carsten Becker @ school wrote:

> 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,
If they're made of waxed card, they're cartons (and vice versa). If
they're made of glass, they're bottles. If they're made of plastic,
they're probably jugs. (but on the last two I wouldn't guarantee vice versa.

>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).
I suppose that's kinda what I'm saying, but WA for Washington always
gets to me. I think I would've preferred WS or WT. Well, I would've
preferred 'Wash.', but America seems intent on 2LAs... :)

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