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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] States: Spell Out or Abbreviate?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:49:05 -0500
References: <AJEHLOMPAIPACPKGLOJJMEKHICAA.bruce.evans@sympatico.ca>


Bruce Evans wrote:
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> I can remember working my way through university as a
>grocery store clerk and seeing oranges from South Africa, then a pariah,
>listed as "Produce of U.S.A." Nobody realized that was "Union of South
>Africa."
>
Just before WW2, a city in Japan was renamed Usa. Products from that
town were labeled Made in USA and just below Made in Japan.

bob gillis



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