[Tagging] "No abbreviations in names" edge case

[Paul Johnson]

Am I to assume that if nobody actually can remember what an abbreviation
means, it's appropriate to go with it anyway?  Example:  I. X. L., Okfuskee
County, Oklahoma:  I can't find an expansion of this town's name, and
suffice to say the town's population is small enough with a high enough
turnover that it's not something that can be readily determined by asking
around.  Closest I've come to expanding it is regional lore that it's the
initials of a wildcatting company, or a portmanteu of the initials of the
town's founders, though I've yet to be able to substantiate either
etymology.  I strongly suspect that whatever IXL originally stood for is
completely beyond long forgotten at this point, so, safe to give up?
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