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- What is the origin of shorthand for with - gt; w ?
It’s also common to see the abbreviation w in real estate or housing descriptions Many descriptions of properties for sale or rent have limited characters, so they use abbreviations: “house w 2-car garage ” You might see the abbreviation for with on official forms or tables of research data that have a limited number of characters
- Are w o, w , b c common abbreviations in the US?
English writing often uses slashes to form two-letter abbreviations, plus the one-letter w – some examples, roughly in order of frequency: I O – “input output” w – “with” c o – “care of” A C – “air conditioning” w o – “without” R C – “remote control” b c – “because” Like most abbreviations, these are less common in formal writing, although some of
- differences - Versus versus vs. in writing - English Language . . .
In writing, when should one use the abbreviation vs as opposed to the full versus? This abbreviation seems to have special status from common usage What is the origin of that, and in what writing
- Why does No mean Number? [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
Why does English use "No " as an abbreviation for "Number"? It's a preserved scribal abbreviation like the ampersand (formed by eliding the letters of et to mean and) The OED has it in use from the 8th century, based on the ablative numerō used for an implied preposition in: X in or according to number It also gets used by the French based on numéro, which produced Wiktionary's erroneous
- Is nr. a correct abbreviation for the word number?
Normally we use 'nr' as an abbreviation of 'near', and 'no' to abbreviate 'number' (from Latin numero) Moreover, unlike AmE, abbreviations do not usually end with a stop if they comprise the first and last letter of the word So in BrE we have and Mr and Dr, in AmE they use Mr and Dr But because the abbreviation 'no' is easily confused with the word 'no', we usually capitalise it with a
- Usage of p. versus pp. versus pg. to denote page numbers and page . . .
Per Strunk and White's Elements of Style, p is used to denote 1 page, pp to denote a range of pages This form of citation is used when you are using brief in text citations Otherwise, one would use the citation style for the type of formal paper that you are writing, for example, MLA would be "don't do it wrong" (Author's Last name 45) where the numbers indicate the page number where the
- numbers - What are the correct abbreviations for millions, billions and . . .
The only financial specific similar abbreviation I can find is MM for million (financial notation, according to Wikipedia) What's the AP style (or equivalent authority) abbreviation for billion and trillion in a financial context, and where would I find this information?
- nouns - Difference between an acronym and abbreviation? - English . . .
TLA is an acronym for "Three Letter Acronym" Is it also an abbreviation, since it abbreviates the original phrase?
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