Short for "Southern California"

Calvin Waterbury · Post by **Calvin Waterbury** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:22 am

I was introduced to the ZLA airspace a number of years ago as "SOCAL" which made a lot of sense to me. Since then I have seen it in print as...
- SoCal
- Socal
- socal

Just for the tally books, is there a "correct" abbreviated representation?

Alex Stjepanovic · Post by **Alex Stjepanovic** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:08 am

Yes, SocaL

Keith Smith · Post by **Keith Smith** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:19 am

Not that I'm aware of. I normally use SoCal with an unfamiliar audience. Among controllers, I will just use all lowercase.

Alex Stjepanovic · Post by **Alex Stjepanovic** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:39 am

Apparently, it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California

In some ways it makes sense to make the 'c' a capital letter, since it's talking about a name(both words are part of a name, so even more so).

Calvin Waterbury · Post by **Calvin Waterbury** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:14 pm

Thank you, Gents!

SoCal_Pilot · Post by **SoCal_Pilot** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:16 pm

I've always used CamelCase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase) when I shove two words together. So, I generally say SoCal or NorCal.

Jeff N · Post by **Jeff N** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:36 pm

SoCal_Pilot wrote:I've always used CamelCase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase) when I shove two words together. So, I generally say SoCal or NorCal.

Very cool, I never knew there was a term for that, even after having spent much of my career in advertising graphic design.

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