Re: Help with death certificate abbreviations

Richard van Schaik wrote:
>> john wrote:
>>> I recently found these two abbreviations on a death certificate: O.W.
>>> and dis'd. Can someone please tell me what they mean? While O.W.
>>> probably means out of wedlock, I have no idea what dis'd means.
>>
>> I would like to add disabled to the list of possibles.
>>
>> Lastly, here is a list I found.
>>
>> http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/WO
> 
> Way out ;-) as it was O.W.
> 
> Richard

Oops, dyslexic moment there. (^:

Acronym	Definition
OW	Obstacle Warning
OW	Obwalden (Swiss Half Canton)
OW	Office of Water
OW	Oh Well
OW	Oil-Immersed Water-Cooled
OW	Old Welsh
OW	One Way
OW	Only Widening
OW	Ontario Works
OW	Open Wire
OW	Operating Wing
OW	Optical Warning
OW	Optical Window
OW	Order-Wire
OW	Ordinary Wave
OW	Outdoor World
OW	Outer Wing
OW	Outer Worlds
OW	Outwar (game)
OW	Overweight

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OW

Jonathan