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Sure, Roy, but "USA" in Greek alphabet starts with an "eta" and so
it's more up on the top (the seventh letter). By the way, my personal
interpretation of why most people in Greece use the acronym "USA"
instead of the full name "United States (of America)" is that perhaps
they consider it awkward to name a state with a general and non
geographic or non historical determinant - considering "united" too
generic and vague in this sense (perhaps in consistence with the
Aristotelian rules of ordering). For instance, it seems to me that
many Greeks do not know which is the country named "United Kingdom."
However, there are counterexamples: some Greeks use the name "Polis"
(meaning "city") for Istanbul (Constantinople in Greek) and "Politeia"
(meaning "state") is a suburb of Athens..

Regards and best wishes for the new year,

--Moses Boudourides



On 12/30/06, Roy Greenhalgh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> As a non north American citizen, I was amused by Bill's posting. I've
> often wondered what the sequence of letters is in the alphabet of that
> country!
>
> Roy Greenhalgh
> (Brit)
>
>
> Quoting "Bill.Richards" <[log in to unmask]>:
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> > The deadline for booking a room at the hotel for the Sunbelt conference
> > in Corfu, Greece in May is January 31. This message may be useful for
> > about half of INSNA members who live in that large country between
> > Canada and Mexico.
> >
> > If you are trying to book a room in the hotel for the Sunbelt with the
> > hotel's on-line reservation system, you may have a bit of trouble
> > finding "United States of America" on the drop-down list of countries on
> > the hotel's on-line reservation system accessible through the Sunbelt
> > web page.
> >
> > The bad news is that if you are looking for "United States of America",
> > you would expect to find it between "United Kingdom" or "United States
> > Minor Island" and "Uruguay".  It isn't there. "America" is also not on
> > the list.
> >
> > The good news is that if you look between "Uruguay" and "Uzbekistan",
> > you will find "USA".
> >
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