Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ai.toronto.edu!lamy From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA Message-ID: <1987Nov26.111032.9276@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 11:10:31 EST Article-I.D.: jarvis.1987Nov26.111032.9276 Posted: Thu Nov 26 11:10:31 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 07:01:26 EST References: <1987Nov23.095020.13055@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1152@looking.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: University of Toronto, AI group Lines: 22 In article <1987Nov25.131317.26029@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes: > >By the way, to Brad's suggestion: >> Instead of ON and PQ and AB what's wrong with "Ontario" and "Quebec" and >> "Alberta?" Computers are very good at arranging aliases. ... As pointed out by Denis Fortin (fortin@zap.uucp) in another forum (his message will likely get here very late because of problems at musocs), established usage in both federal and provincial governmental institutions is to use QC as the abbreviation. It is indeed a bit silly that PQ is the only abbreviation where the word "province" appears. I remember noticing that the abbreviation got out of style when a political party of the same name got elected. Pros wanted to avoid the "P", cons wanted to avoid the subliminal association. In other words, QC it should be. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.toronto.edu lamy@ai.toronto.cdn AI Group, Dept of Computer Science uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy University of Toronto lamy%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net (arpa) Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 lamy@ai.utoronto, lamy@utorgpu (bitnet)