Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> *Is the District of Colunmbia, which is, I understand,
> where Washington, DC is kept, nomally called DC (in
> speech)? If if is, there are too many parallels
> between DC and the ACT, and I don't care that it was
> by design.
Because "Washington" is also the name of a state, it's common to
use "D.C." ["di"si] to refer to the city itself.  "I'm taking the
bus down to D.C. for the weekend."

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that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
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