sahayman@watmath.UUCP (Steve Hayman) (10/28/86)
I've never understood how you get CDN, the official ISO 3-character abbreviation for CANADA. I suppose you could get it from CanaDiaN but that's a pretty odd way to do it. Wouldn't CAN make more sense? Or even CND? Was I sick the day we voted on CDN? Steve Hayman Math Faculty Computing Facility U. of Waterloo
taras@utcs.UUCP (10/28/86)
And what is wrong with having CDN as an abbreviation for Canadian. If you pronounce the three letter combination very quickly it sort of sounds like Canadian, and besides it has been used as a abbreviation for Canadian for as long as I can remember, which is at least 20 years. Telex was/is great for this kind of stuff, can you figure out who CDN NTL is? -- Taras Pryjma uucp: taras@utcs.uucp bitnet: tpryjma@utoronto Bell: +1 (416) 536-2821 DO NOT WASH: This vehicle part of scientific dirt experiment!
lamy@utai.UUCP (10/29/86)
Is Canada the only country whose abbreviation designates the inhabitants instead of the country? Jean-Francois Lamy AI Group, Dept of Computer Science CSNet: lamy@ai.toronto.edu University of Toronto EAN: lamy@ai.toronto.cdn Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1A4 UUCP: lamy@utai.uucp
taras@utcs.UUCP (11/04/86)
In article <2602@utai.UUCP> lamy@utai.UUCP writes:
# Is Canada the only country whose abbreviation designates the inhabitants
# instead of the country?
#
# Jean-Francois Lamy
There are two things that I could say, 1. is that maybe Canadians figure
that people are more important than real estate and 2. you might think of
the word Canadian as denoting something that belongs to Canada.
Is there anything wrong with an abbreviation that designates the
inhabitants instead of the coutry???
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