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<DIV><FONT size=2>Re the recent (and excellent) efforts being made to apply
consistency for naming conventions, I would like to throw a mild spanner
in.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>How come cities in the USA are identified simply by [[City,
State]] and not [[City, State, USA]]? There would seem to be a
presupposition that *everyone* will recognise US state names. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Admittedly you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't
heard of California. However a lot of people might not have heard of Iowa,
Missouri, New Hampshire, Montana, or Louisiana, or would not know that New York,
Mississippi and Washington are also states, or that New Mexico is actually
in the USA. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I did a quick survey of people in my office (all of whom can
be regarded as quite highly educated), and in each case I managed to find a US
State they had never heard of or were confused about.</FONT><FONT size=2> By
means of comparison, those US editors might try and name the 6 states of
Australia, or the 9 provinces of South Africa, or the I-don't-know-how-many
Provinces of Canada (with due apologies to my Canadian colleagues). And that is
only considering the English-speaking world...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Manning</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>