This article is about the District of Columbia, or as locals say, “the District” or DC

My friend knows that the official name of the US nation’s capital is the District of Columbia. And he knows to call it that from knowing me. He does not say, “Washington DC” as the sheeple have been brainwashed to say. Although he does say that when he’s being sarcastic and mocking people who don’t know any better.

It occurred to me the other day that there is no other state or US territory where letters are spoken or written after a city’s name, except for the District of Columbia. In other words, no one says, “I live in San Francisco, C-A. Or, I live in Portland, O-R, or in Boston, M-A. Instead people say California, Oregon and Massachusetts in those instances. Yet when it comes to the District of Columbia, they say DC, rather than District of Columbia. The same people say the name of any of the 50 states and not their letter abbreviations.

And I suspect most people who say “Washington DC” don’t even know what DC stands for.

Google uses “Washington, District of Columbia.” But they should be using District of Columbia by itself since that is the official name of the US nation’s capital — look it up! — because there is no Washington in the District. Washington and District of Columbia mean the same thing. They are synonymous. There is a Georgetown in the District, not far from where I used to live at Foggy Bottom, that’s where the Watergate and the Kennedy Center are.

But it is curious that DC is the only territory — everyone knows that the District is a Federal District and not a state, correct? — where people have been brainwashed to say and write letters. Yet they don’t do the same for the 50 states.

Then The Washington Post still uses some archaic form style where they write DC with periods: D.C. for example. That went out decades ago when USPS decreed that all states and the District of Columbia should have two letter abbreviations without punctuation, such as:

DC

CA

NY

PA

IL

MA

FL and so forth