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Re: Should we wrap common abbreviations in tags?

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From: Bill Mason
Date: Dec 2, 2008 4:25PM

Tessie Teoh wrote:
> We are currently programming a website and were wondering if we should
> wrap common abbreviations in corresponding tags, for example wrap "Jan"
> for January or "NSW" for New South Wales.

I would just like to observe that "NSW" isn't common if you don't live
in that geographical region. :) On a first skim, I thought it was a
mistyped abbreviation for northwest or southwest.
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Bill Mason
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