PA vs Pennsylvania

PA

name
  • Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America 

  • Papua, a province of Indonesia 

  • Pará, a state of Brazil 

  • Palestinian Authority 

  • Proto-Algic (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian) 

  • Proto-Athapaskan 

  • Proto-Algonquian (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc) 

noun
  • Power amplifier. 

  • Public accountant. 

  • Public Act. 

Pennsylvania

name
  • A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg; largest city: Philadelphia. 

  • An unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. 

  • A suburb of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9294). 

  • A hamlet in Cold Ashton parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7473). 

  • The first, and historically largest, now defunct US railroad, a hallmark of the industrial age. 

How often have the words PA and Pennsylvania occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )