[Tagging] "No abbreviations in names" edge case

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi Paul,
As long as I see hundrets of streets, (most of them in North and South
America, although that may be accidently), that abbreviate Street to St,
Avenue to Ave and much more I wouldn't bother in cases I don't know the
long term.

Even if there may be the chance to find what it means, I would map the
abbreviation first and try to remind it for later or for others to fix.

So: Sure, keep on mapping other stuff, and if you stumble over the
meaning, you might remember that you can fix your old edit later ;)

regards
Peter

 Am 18.06.2014 06:40, schrieb 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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