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The traditional abbreviations for U.S. states and territories, widely used in mailing addresses prior to the introduction of two-letter U.S. postal abbreviations, are still commonly used for other purposes (such as legal citation), and are still recognized (though discouraged) by the Postal Service.
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Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them. Input a state abbreviation , output is the full state name.
To use an example from another talk section -- Kent. is an abbreviation for Kentucky and Kent is the name of the county or city of Kent. If the abbreviation is used properly with a period it would not be confusing and obvious that Kent. means Kentucky. The article should be split and have one for state codes and one for abbreviations.
List of U. S. postal abbreviations and List of U.S. states by traditional abbreviation should be merged. The two lists deal with basically the same thing, abbreviations. Neither list is particularly long, and the postal abbrs. could easily be merged with the table on the tradtional abbrs. article.
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