Who made this decision?

[EFLImpudence]

I have just noticed that on the BBC sports Cricket website, even though there is plenty of room and abbreviations are not necessary, they use the following:

Eng, Aus, Ind, Sri, WI, NZ etc.

However, one, for some reason, is PKN.

Did they have a meeting to decide this or is the author just afraid of something he imagined?

 

[Dextraneous]

i never knew the People's Kingdom of Nicaragua had a cricket team.

 

[joe-90]

Is that Women's Institute?

 

[Dextraneous]

Is that Women's Institute?

Nope. You're confused with PMT

 

[Newboy]

Is that Women's Institute?

Nope. You're confused with PMT

Now there's a really brave man - the wrath of thousands of hormonal (should that be HRTmal) will be visited upon you

 

[Dextraneous]

I laugh (albeit drunkenly) in the face of hormonal women

 

[Newboy]

Not so much brave as suicidal!

 

[JBR]

I have just noticed that on the BBC sports Cricket website, even though there is plenty of room and abbreviations are not necessary, they use the following:

Eng, Aus, Ind, Sri, WI, NZ etc.

However, one, for some reason, is PKN.

Did they have a meeting to decide this or is the author just afraid of something he imagined?

As far as I'm aware Pak is a rude word so would never be allowed by the BBC, and if you were to add a letter 'I' to the end you'd be immediately arrested by the PC Police.

 

[joe-90]

There's a big Pakistani shop in Nottingham called Pak Foods. They sell food to the Pakistani community.

 

[Dextraneous]

Who is going to fill my suitcase? Not I

 

[handyjack]

Almost two decades ago, our founders Mr M.Altaf and

his four brothers, M.Abdul-Razaq, M.Nawaz, R.Akhtar

and M.Ashfaq established the first PAK Foods in the city

of Derby. Since then there has been no looking back and

PAK Foods today is a trusted name and a significant contributor to the fast paced economic and social growth

of the City of Derby. An addition of 4 more stores have

come up in convenient locations across the East Midlands and North Staffordshire.

 

[joe-90]

How come his brothers all have different surnames?

 

[Dextraneous]

How come his brothers all have different surnames?

How else would one be able to tell them apart

 

[joe-90]

When you want the all you just shout 'Mohammed'.

 

[Brigadier]

Might be "brothers" in the colloquial "I look out for my brothers"-type sense, rather than sibling / biological sense?