- Are w o, w , b c common abbreviations in the US?
Both "w " and "w o" were common U S abbreviations in correspondence, and in tight spots on data tables, until recently
- Is there a common abbreviation for with or without? e. g. w wo or w w o
Yes, in the right context it should be pretty easy to deduce Salad dressing recipes (or any recipes) for which the ingredients may include controversial items such as anchovies, or very spicy ingredients; will often have the potentially offensive ingredients listed as optional
- Origin of Well, well, well. What do we have here?
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- punctuation - Why is there a slash within n a? - English Language . . .
It's nonsense relic from an old day, NA should be used even though Meriam Webster says N A is correct The logic was they were afraid na would be misread as no to often, which in itself is a silly jusifications today because we capitalize abbreviations
- Is Idve proper use of the English language?
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- abbreviations - When is it proper to abbreviate first to 1st? - English . . .
Barring cases of extreme abbreviations (where one might use such abbreviations as "t ppl complaind abt t difficulty n reading c", such as some live internet chat room, or mediaeval manuscripts) then 1st must only be used when first is an actual ordinal; that is it could be replaced by "in position number one" and make the same sense, albeit clumsily:
- What would be the proper usage of Qua in a sentence?
The one place where I encountered qua over and over and over was in the Random House translations of Aristotle that we used in college when studying the Greek philosophers (or more specifically, "the philosopher," as a number of medieval scholars referred to Aristotle)
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