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From: Alon Fridman Waisbard
Date: May 9, 2017 5:57AM

I just listened to this mail with NVDA on Windows, and heard "us" both when
it was written in upper or lower case.
And heard U.S.A. when you wrote USA in the subject.
So USA seems better.
Though I think that you can also define US as abbreviation of USA or United
States of America and it'll be read like that.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:44 PM, McGarvey, Paul < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Given that screenreaders will often try and read out acronymns and
> abbreviations with vowels as words, is it best to avoid using US when
> referring to the United States of America? Would US dollars be read out as
> us dollars?
>
> Regards,
>
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