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

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Peter Dobratz <peter at dobratz.us> 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.
>
> I recently added an IHOP restaurant, and I ended up using name=IHOP,
> though I thought briefly about name=International House of Pancakes.

The International House of Pancakes brand is gone, it's now IHOP, just
as KFC is now KFC, and not Kentucky Fried Chicken.

These are renames by the brands, and not sign abbreviations, just as
AT&T is just AT&T and not American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

- Serge