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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
adj. = adjective
adv. = adverb
AHD = The American Heritage
Dictionary of the English
Language
(4th ed. 2000)
Am. = American
AmE = American English
arch. = archaic
A.S. = Anglo-Saxon
Aus. =Australian
Br. = British
BrE = British English
c. = century
ca. = (
circa ) around
Can. = Canadian
cap. = capitalized
cf. = (
confer ) compare with
COD = The Concise Oxford
Dictionary of Current
English
(8th ed. 1990)
colloq. = colloquial
conj. = conjunction
DAEU = Margaret Nicholson, A
Dictionary of American-
English Usage
(1957)
DCAU = Bergen Evans & Cornelia
Evans,
A Dictionary of
Contemporary American
Usage
(1957)
ed. = edition; editor
e.g. = (
exempli gratia ) for
example
Eng. = English
esp. = especially
ex.=example
fig. = figuratively
fr. = from; derived from; found
in
Fr. = French
G.B. = Great Britain (i.e.,
England, Scotland, and
Wales)
Ger. = German
Gk. = Greek
ibid. =( ibidem ) in the same work
i.e. = (
id est ) that is
Ital. = Italian
Jap. =Japanese
L. = Latin
l.c. = lowercase
lit. = literally
MAU = Wilson Follett, Modern
American Usage
(1966)
ME = Middle English
MEU1 = H.W. Fowler, A Dictionary
of Modern English Usage
(1926)
MEU2 = H.W. Fowler, A Dictionary
of Modern English Usage
(Ernest Gowers ed., 2d ed.
1965)
MEU3 = R.W. Burchfield, The New
Fowler’s Modern English
Usage
(1996)
n. = noun
no. = number
NOAD = The New Oxford American
Dictionary
(2001)
Norw. = Norwegian
obs. = obsolete
OE = Old English
OED = The Oxford English
Dictionary
(2d ed. 1989)
OED Supp. = A Supplement to the
Oxford English Dictionary
(4 vols., 1972-1986)
OF = Old French
OGEU = The Oxford Guide to
English Usage
(1983)
orig. = originally
p. = page
phr. = phrase
pl. = plural
pmbl. = preamble
pp. = pages
p.pl. = past participle
prep. = preposition
pron. = pronoun
pr.pl. = present participle
quot. = quotation
repr. = reprinted
rev. = revised by; revision
RH2 = The Random House
Dictionary of the English
Language
(2d ed. 1987)
Russ. = Russian
Scot. = Scottish
sing. = singular
SOED = The New Shorter Oxford
English Dictionary
(1993)
Sp. = Spanish
specif. = specifically
U&A =Eric Partridge, Usage &
Abusage
(1942)
U.K. = United Kingdom (i.e.,
Great Britain and-since
1922-Northern Ireland)
U.S. = United States
USGPO = United States Government
Printing Office,
A Manual
of Style
(rev. ed. 1986)
usu. = usually
vb. = verb
v.i. = intransitive verb
v.t. = transitive verb
W2 = Webster’s New Interna-
tional Dictionary of the
English Language
(2d ed.
1934)
W3 = Webster’s Third New
International Dictionary of
the English Language
(1961)
W11 = Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary
(11th
ed. 2003)
WDEU = Merriam-Webster’s
Dictionary of English
Usage
(1989)
WNWCD = Webster’s New World
College Dictionary
(3d ed.
1995)