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If Americans did the same it would be great
by Tom1380 10mo ago
If Americans did the same it would be great
- RIMR 10mo agoGood luck. Americans won't even differentiate Washington State and Washington D.C. Even the AP guidelines say that "Washington" is ubiquitous shorthand for "Washington D.C." and recommends against shortening it to "D.C."
- shermantanktop 10mo agoAmericans do! If you are west of the Rockies, Washington resolves to the west. If you are east, it’s DC, and you have to say “you know, where Nirvana is from.” Don’t get me started on east coast dumdums pronouncing Oregon as “Orry-gone.”
- lazyasciiart 10mo agoThe most hilarious thing is that I learned recently that when they applied to be a state, the people from WA requested to be the state of Columbia. But a Kentucky rep said that would be too easily confused with the District of Columbia, and Congress changed it to Washington.
- GJim 10mo ago> when they applied to be a state, the people from WA Western Australia?
- lazyasciiart 10mo agoYes. Little known fact, it was renamed Washington by Congress.
- deelayman 10mo agoThis is also a problem that exists within countries. My RSS feed is littered with Canadian independent (national) news agencies not defining what municipality article headlines relate to. E.g. "Mayor pushes back against province on xyz issue". Okay, that might be huge news for Timmins Ontario , but maybe BAU for Toronto. Even skimming the lead paragraph doesn't define the city often. *Editting with a point: Perhaps everyone assumes a local audience.
- pierrec 10mo agoAmericans, hm? I see what you did there.
- shermantanktop 10mo agoFine, fine. North Americans.
- gnabgib 10mo agoSo just the three of us up here - Mexico/US/Canada?