Reply to post: Re: good grief

0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

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Re: good grief

"Why use letters at all? As far as I know, anyone else outside UK only uses letters as a prefix to identify a region."

In Sweden the format is "ABC 123".

I don't know if there's a system to it or not. But they remove obvious naughty words (in Swedish).

The reason for using letters is to get a much larger allocation space. The reason to mix letters and number is probably to make it easier to remember, or something to do with legacy stuff.

You used to be able to see from the reg no where the car was registered, but they dropped that when they introduced the "ABC 123" format.

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