It stands for Revised Code of Washington, but every time... EVERY TIME I see reference to my state's legal code, I parse it as "Rabid Crack Weasel".

This leads to a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, as you might expect.

In Maine they're called the Maine Revised Statutes (Annotated). So, for instance, the short-form citation for the Maine law prohibiting the unauthorized carrying of firearms in courthouses is

17-A MRSA § 43-1058

To the rest of the world, of course, MRSA stands for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a.k.a. that disease you really hope you don't catch in the hospital while you're there for something else.

Perhaps because of this, more recent citations I've seen have taken to dropping the "A".

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You aren't the only one. I do it with a lot of other abbreviations, though.

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