[Talk-us] Abbreviation expansion - USS to United States Ship?

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 5/10/2012 12:47 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Nathan Edgars II<neroute2 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Is this a good idea? It looks really odd to me:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9061339
>
> I bet that no one actually says United States Ship in conversation,
> but rather U.S.S.

Would the same reasoning apply to Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior 
Boulevard (though here the common name might vary, perhaps King, or MLK)?