Helen Ramsay <r@hotmail.com> wrote:

> peaking of the frozen north ... I've watched an American soap for umpteen
> years and I kinda let it slide when one of the characters made what I
> thought was simply a mistake when he spoke about Canada a few weeks ago.
> I'll be writing to the programme today though because the same character
> made the same comment today so it was NO mistake. I could hardly believe my
> ears when he said, "I'll gladly pay for your one way ticket back to the
> PROVINCE of OTTAWA." !! Jeesh! Really! Don't they research these things?
> 
> Cheers,  Helen (in the PROVINCE of ONTARIO where the FEDERAL CAPITAL OF
> CANADA, OTTAWA, is situated.)

Maybe all that verbiage wouldn't fit in the little box on the form, so
it got abbreviated? 

Mind you, I did get skilled at cramming "Specialist in
Humanities/International Services", or some variant thereof, into that
tiny little box on the Japanese visa renewal forms.

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