States Postal Abbreviations (Quiz Me On Book 7)

Log in or sign up to add this lesson to a Custom Course. Login or Sign up. The United States is made up of fifty states and a national capital, as well as a number of possessions and territories around the world. Because their names are often long, they are frequently abbreviated in written documents and on mailing addresses. In and , the United States Postal Service published a preferred list of state abbreviations. However, before , the Post Office Department favored people writing out the state and territorial names in full to avoid confusion.

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For example, Mississippi and Michigan might both be abbreviated MI for their first two letters. In , the post office put into effect the five-digit ZIP Code which would be written after the state abbreviation.

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At this time, many state abbreviations were made up of four letters. However, due to limited space availability on mailing labels, it was felt that the four letter abbreviations combined with the five-digit zip code contained too many digits. As such, the state abbreviations were amended in October to the now familiar two letters. The change-over to the two-letter state abbreviations was not instantaneous. At first, they were optional and intended for use by large businesses to use in conjunction with the new zip codes.

To date, there has only been one change to the abbreviations. In , the postal abbreviation for Nebraska, NB, was changed to NE at a request from the Canadian Postal Administration, in order to avoid confusion with the province of New Brunswick. The United States territories and oversees military installations were also given their own two-digit abbreviations.

Well, they are how mail is sent to military personnel stationed overseas. These addresses also utilize special zip codes.

By making standardized abbreviations, the USPS makes it easier for everyone to recognize and write the states on mail. States have both standard or common abbreviations as well as Postal Service Abbreviations. This allows for the states names to be cut into shorter forms for correspondences and mailing addresses. In , the state postal codes were formalized into two character abbreviations. It was put into effect at first for big businesses, but was then gradually adopted by everyone as a standardized format.

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Explore over 4, video courses. The Chicago Manual of Style recommends alphabetizing letter-by-letter. Therefore, alphabetize by the spelling of the abbreviations. There is no reason to treat LED any differently. Your DOS example is an interesting one though. I have heard it pronounced both ways and I never blink an eye when I hear either one. It seems very arbitrary.

The classification depends on how the word is pronounced rather than how it is spelled. As we stated in our reply of December 15, , to RandiO, an initialism is a type of abbreviation. What about when it is a cross between an initialism and an acronym? What then is that? What about LOL, for laughing out loud? Is that an acronym or an initialism? Thank you for clarifying this! Generally, initialisms are capitalized, but there is no hard-and-fast rule regarding this—at least none that we are aware of. Thank you, GrammarBook and Fred. It seems that prepositions in initialisms can either be capitalized or not.

Could this be a British versus American English thing i. What about abbreviating a title in which one of the words is not capitalised? These individuals are often called Auxiliary Board members. Since the word members is not part of the title of the group, it should not be included in the abbreviation.

The total number of non-farm workers employed in the United States has been published monthly since Louis and other agencies. It is neither an acronym nor an initialism.

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Is it simply a made-up word? If there is a hyphenated phrase in an initialism, is it necessary to use the hyphen? When writing an acronym and including periods after each letter — is it required to put the period after the last letter? I often see this period omitted. In writing legal descriptions, is it proper to have a space between two abbreviated words or not? Which of the following is correct?

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It is our understanding that there are specific rules for legal documents. We suggest consulting a legal style manual. When creating an acronym that has an compound word such as Homecare in it, should the word be represented by two letters or one in the acronym?

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Acronym style does not have set rules; rather, it is most often determined by those who are forming the acronym. Most acronyms include one letter per separate word. The word hazmat is an example of blending, and is known as a portmanteau word. Blending is the formation of a new word with a distinctive meaning by truncating parts of two or more other words. Are these abbreviations only, or could they also be considered acronyms?

The reason these are differentiated in my mind is that they are shortened words, and not made by the initials of many words put together. To complete this list, we need one more category. What do we call the following words: They are words which derive from longer words: Obviously, they are not initialisms e. They are unlike abbreviations e.

Finally, they are not exactly like acronyms e. Your examples are a type of abbreviation created through truncation. Not all abbreviations use periods. We are not aware of another name for them. Thank you for your help. There is no particular rule. Even though they are abbreviations, we refer to them the same way we do Marriott and Microsoft. Whether an article is used generally depends on the sentence. CNN offers hour news coverage. Please ensure that your question or comment relates to the topic of the blog post.

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