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Re: A rather dumb quesion...
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Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:55:52 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:
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> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > PA => PennsylvAniA (there is no PE)
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> PA is very easy to remember if you know someone from there, because
> Pennsylvanians have this thing where they actually call their state "P A"
> instead of its name.
Are we the only state that does this? I spent most of my life in PA now I live in Virginia and I
just realized that I typically refer to it as "V A". Maybe it's because they rhyme.
I also call West Virginia, "W V" but I think they might do that themselves, I'll have to check.
-Chris
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| sorry to reply to my own post, but I forgot to look out the window towards DC, pronouced "D C." Does this count since it is not really a state? -Chris (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us)
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| (...) PA is very easy to remember if you know someone from there, because Pennsylvanians have this thing where they actually call their state "P A" instead of its name. (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us)
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