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Re: punctuation et al. rules

Subject: Re: punctuation et al. rules
From: "Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:49:51 -0500

On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:41:24 -0500, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> wrote:

viz. 3
mL

Admonishment to self: "viz." is a bad abbreviation stemming from esoteric medieval handwriting. It stands for "videlicet" and should probably be banished. "Et al." and "i.e." and "e.g." are more legitimate but also deserving of increased obscurity.
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