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From: Rockne Johnson <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Abbreviations
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:14:43 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20051007073805.01eb35d8@pop.earthlink.net>


As an older American, I may sometimes forget to place an 'n' at the end of
the word American. Please excuse this as a mistake, not an abbreviation!

Rock

At 07:55 AM 10/7/2005, Rockne Johnson wrote:
>I have asked, and will ask again, that subscribers to the DENMARK list
>avoid the use of abbreviations in their communications to the list. This
>applies especially to the abbreviations officially adopted by the United
>States Postal Service for the names of the various States. This DENMARK
>list is very world-wide in its composition and there is no reason to
>expect that a subscriber in, say, Denmark would know that WA, for example,
>means Washington, not Western Australia. As an older America, I was using
>NE to mean northeast long before it came to mean Nebraska. As a
>genealogist, I find that, in older records, it usually means New England.
>
>Rock
>Sedona, Arizona
>
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