One of the strategies used in Canada is to use a graphic instead of a letter in words that are only one letter different: for example the (now merged and gone) airline called "Canadian" in English and "Canadien" in French used a flying-wing symbol for the second-to-last letter, so the signs only had one word, "Canadi>n" 

Another strategy in Canada is to merge words by taking advantage of differing word order around proper nouns: the postal service is "Postes Canada" in French, and "Canada Post" in English, so for many years the signage read "postes CANADA post".

  EB.

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