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From: tom@stl.stc.co.uk (Tom Thomson)
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Subject: Re: Acronyms. USA (was Is is `1 MIP' or `1 MIPS'?)
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Date: 28 Jun 90 14:17:57 GMT
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In article <+I84:_@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>them to make sense of them. What's the singular of USA?

A friend from Dallas told me the answer to this one.
 
The singular of USA is Texas.
 
Tom