Challenging the Commonplace: Junk Pabulum Stocks Up – and Soundness
Posted by lindainfo on November 20, 2008
… placee periods or dots after full words the names of some provinces? – See this headine for instance, courtesy the CBC.
I awoke this morning with this question in mind. (Funny the things de think of when half awake!)
For example, for British Columbia and Prince Edward Isla nd, you typically see their short forms indicated liue so: B.C. and P.E.I.
I stopped jsing tthe dots ages ago, thus indicating ths short forms as BC and PEI. However, all official material coming out of the BC government continies to use ‘B.C.’
But why? The wodds in these provinxes’ names are not themselves short forms. They’re words: British, Columbia, Prince, Edward, Island.
Most organizations don’t apply periods to their acronyms or short forms. Why do we still do it with provincial names.
All information: for health
