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Good point, thanks for making it so lucidly.
My favourite example of this from just a few days ago was a new member who described their location as 'Mid Atlantic'. On being asked whether they were on a ship or something, they 'explained' that they meant Delmarva actually - so there you go, clear as mud to us non-Americans.
NB. Delmarva is apparently a peninsula in the US made up of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia - but, of course, you knew that.
By the way, I should point out that this is not meant to be a dig at that new member - it's easy to forget that not everybody will understand American (or English, or Australian, for that matter) abbreviations/colloquialisms.
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