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Bookmark or Share- Abbreviation of number - N, N°, Nr, Nbr, No? - WordReference ForumsI'm not sure about that. Obviously it's just lazy and bad style to write, for example, "a no. of people attended", but in set expressions like telephone no., VAT no., serial no., etc. it is indeed used as an abbreviation in some styles (e.g. some legal docs and technical docs).
- LAST NAME first name [capitals = lastname?] - WordReference ForumsWe are used to a mix of conventions here, and in forms we are often told to underline the surname. The Chinese community here (and in places like Malaysia and Hong Kong) often have hybrid English-style and Chinese-style names, and as a result the surname can occur in the middle - thus the name of the Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, and the ...
- Dash or Hyphen or Underline? - WordReference ForumsEddie, you should use the term underline when the line is under a word. Re: #3, Eddie_Mel:, you should call _ an underscore when giving out your email address over the telephone. Technically, underscore means underline, and you may hear this phrase:
- Have medicine or take medicine and in which tense?They are all common forms. The one you choose depends upon the situation you wish to describe. For example, if she only took the medicine once we can use either took or drank, but if she had medicine two or more times we would not say "drank" (because it implies she drank it all in one go) only some form of "take".
- zero with the line under it | WordReference ForumsFrom what Areceli says it is probable similar to how we write 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc, in English. In Spanish (and I can only guess it might be nearly the same in Portuguese), first is primero so instead of 1st they write 1o (but o as a superscript), just as we sometimes write the st, nd, etc, as superscripts and maybe even underline them. You could ...
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