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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Maps are not an international language
Message-ID: <567@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 13:57:39 EST
Article-I.D.: cylixd.567
Posted: Tue Dec 10 13:57:39 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Dec-85 04:49:13 EST
References: <292@jenny.UUCP>
Reply-To: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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Summary: 

In article <292@jenny.UUCP> jbdp@jenny.UUCP (Julian Pardoe) writes:
>On a trip to the States five or so years ago a Belgian friend of mine
>was frequently asked: ``Belgium?  Is that a city or a country?''

And from the U.S. Postal Service:

Someone I knew gave a package addressed to "Vienna, Austria" to the
postal clerk.  The clerk handed it back, saying "I'm sorry, but you
can't abbreviate the name of the country.  You'll have to write 
'Australia' out."

		charli