"b. in Ks" = born in Kansas Ah, right ! ...................... IHT that Ks MHB a new Br Cty that HBF whilst I HBI Hptl but as I couldn't find Ks ITGz I was a bit cfd - but now IIC ! (TGFT !) - RAR then ! On the plus side I have been reminded of just why (and correctly) I have such a dislike of (needless and potentially confusing) abbreviations ! Please don't get me started on emails / web postings without capitalisations ....! Rgds - Tom Tulloch-Marshall WW1 MR WSt - http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/index.html

Since this is an international list and we could have people form any country in the world that we are all communicating with, we should also be careful with abbreviations for country's and states, City's and Towns. Making it clear what and where we are refering to. Thanks for your comments, Barbara Ann Phillips bphil1@earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <prosearch@btinternet.com> To: "GREATWAR-L" <GREATWAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 1:17 AM Subject: [GREATWAR] b in Ks (!) > "b. in Ks" = born in Kansas > > Ah, right ! ...................... IHT that Ks MHB a new Br Cty that HBF > whilst I HBI Hptl but as I couldn't find Ks ITGz I was a bit cfd - but now > IIC ! (TGFT !) - RAR then ! > > On the plus side I have been reminded of just why (and correctly) I have > such a dislike of (needless and potentially confusing) abbreviations ! > > Please don't get me started on emails / web postings without > capitalisations ....! > > Rgds > - > Tom Tulloch-Marshall > WW1 MR > WSt - http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/index.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message