How did we wind up with "CDN" as an abbreviation for "Canada"?

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From: Steve Hayman
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1986 07:34

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I've never understood how you get CDN, the official ISO 3-character
abbreviation for CANADA.  I suppose you could get it from CanaDiaN but
that's a pretty odd way to do it.  Wouldn't CAN make more sense?
Or even CND?  Was I sick the day we voted on CDN?

Steve Hayman
Math Faculty Computing Facility
U. of Waterloo

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Subject: How did we wind up with "CDN" as an abbreviation for "Canada"?
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