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Abbreviation for American States

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TheCakeLady | 20:47 Mon 01st Feb 2010 | Travel
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Can anyone tell me if there is a rule to the abbreviation of the names of the states of america?
I thought it might be the first and last letters but that doesn't follow for all of them, it's not the first and second either.
Help! this is really bugging me!
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There isn't a universal rule, no - one or other of the two you have spotted apply in most instances but not all.

I think they've avolded anything that could have two meanings but that's about it
it's a post office thing; you couldn't have just the first and last letters, as that would make Alaska, Arizona and Alabama all AA.

http://en.wikipedia.o...#Postal_abbreviations
and I suspect ALabama is only AL (potential confusion with ALaska) because Alaska was not a state when the list was first drawn up.

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