I am Pedantic.

State Abbreviations

I really dislike the US state abbreviations recommended by the AP Stylebook: “Wis.”, “Mich.”, “Del.”, “Calif.”.

My humble recommendation: use either the standard 2-letter postal abbreviations—WI, MI, DE, CA—or write out the whole state name. This intermediate abbreviation nonsense is messy, anti-formulaic and conveys no additional useful information to the reader.