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A business founded (or a building built or a monument dedicated) in 1854 might have a sign or plaque reading "EST'D 1854" or "EST 1854" or "ESTD 1854", or some other combination I haven't seen or h... More @Wikipedia
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- abbreviations - Which (if any) is correct: est., estd., or est'd ...A business founded (or a building built or a monument dedicated) in 1854 might have a sign or plaque reading "EST'D 1854" or "EST 1854" or "ESTD 1854", or some other combination I haven't seen or h...
- abbreviations - Should I write "PhD" or "Ph.D."? - English Language ...PhD and Ph.D. are both correct. Canadians tend to omit the periods and those from the U.S. tend to keep them. A reference grammar explains it like this: 2 abbreviations and acronyms. 1 punctuation. We usually write abbreviations without full stops in modern British English.
- Is there a common abbreviation for "with or without"? e.g. w/wo or w/w/oThe abbreviation opt. meaning optional or option for is an alternative to "with or without"... This is my suggestion: If a key item is acceptable with or without a sub item then I recommend the use of the abbreviation for Optional (opt.) sandwich recipe suggestion: buns, beef, onion, opt. mustard or mustard (opt.),...
- abbreviations - How should I abbreviate "versus"? - English Language ...In American English it should end with a period because it is abbreviated. also possible is -v-, but nearly extinct (only in legal contexts, if then). The rule I have always used is to add a dot when the letter is not the last letter of the word, to omit the dot otherwise. Thus, we have v. (with a dot) but vs (no dot).
- abbreviations - When were st, nd, rd, and th, first used - English ...Most Romance languages do, along with a number of others, including Dutch and English. In English, Wikipedia says these started out as superscripts: 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, but during the 20 th century they migrated to the baseline: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. So the practice started during the Roman empire, and probably was continuously used since ...
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