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

[Richard Welty]

On 5/10/12 12:39 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:33 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>> Is this a good idea? It looks really odd to me:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9061339
> I agree that it looks odd. Expand "Drive" perhaps, but expanding all of
> it looks rather awkward.
>
i would not expand USS  in that manner, no one does. it's formal to the
point of being stilted.

richard
   (who volunteers at the USS Slater museum, not the United States Ship 
Slater museum)