Signor de Tivoli not only prints the text with all its orthographical confusions, abbreviations, and alterations; but he also adds what he modestly terms a restoration of the sonnet.

The students have usually special abbreviations of their own, and so find no difficulty in taking down all the important points, even when the utterance is rapid.

The abbreviations Cisetre and Cysseter were in use as long ago as the fifteenth century, though some of the natives are now in the habit of calling it Ciren.

The period is generally used after abbreviations, and very often to the exclusion of other points; but, as in this case it is not a constant sign of pause, other points may properly follow it, if the words written in full would demand them: as, A. D. for Anno Domini;Pro tem.

2.Letters written for numbers, after the manner of the Romans, though read as words, are never words in themselves; nor are they, except perhaps in one or two instances, abbreviations of words.

It is, however, and always has been, a prevalent custom, to mark numbers of this kind with a period, as if they were abbreviations; as, "While pope Sixtus V. who succeeded Gregory XIII.

As for the period "after numeral letters," if they really needed it at all, they would need it severally, as do the abbreviations; but there are none of them, which do not uniformly dispense with it, when not final to the number; and they may as well dispense with it, in like manner, whenever they are not final to the sentence.

5.To allow the period of abbreviation to supersede all other points wherever it occurs, as authors generally have done, is sometimes plainly objectionable; but, on the other hand, to suppose double points to be always necessary wherever abbreviations or Roman numbers have pauses less than final, would sometimes seem more nice than wise, as in the case of Biblical and other references.

UNDER RULE III.OF ABBREVIATIONS.

But, according to Rule 3d, "The period is generally used after abbreviations, and very often to the exclusion of other points; but, as in this case it is not a constant sign of pause, other points may properly follow it, if the words written in full would demand them."

"The period is also used after abbreviations; as, A. D. P. S. G. W. Johnson.

For our own part, one of the greatest bugbears of books is the Road Book on the old system: it is all long columns of small type, in which we lose our way as in the cross-roads of the last centuryall direction-posts and "Vides," puzzle upon puzzle, Pelion on Ossa, and Ossa on Pelioncrabbed and complex abbreviations, with which we get acquainted at the end of our journey.

Supplements & abbreviations by Charles H. Fitch.

LOOMIS, MADELINE S. Symbols and abbreviations used in correction Braille.

LOOMIS, STILLMAN W. Symbols and abbreviations used in correction Braille.

In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded: - vowels with macrons = vowel + 'n' or 'm' - q;

2. All abbreviations should be followed by a period.

Abbreviations: lit., literally; ref., reflexive; pret., preterit; rev., reverential; freq., frequentative; post., postposition; Span., a Spanish word.

Following is an explanation of the abbreviations used in the foregoing tables: | | F.S. at E.L. = Fiber stress at elastic limit.

Following is an explanation of the abbreviations used in the foregoing tables: | | F.S. at E.L. = Fiber stress at elastic limit.

Following is an explanation of the abbreviations used in the foregoing tables: | | F.S. at E.L. = Fiber stress at elastic limit.

Following is an explanation of the abbreviations used in the foregoing tables: | | F.S. at E.L. = Fiber stress at elastic limit.

BG with various abbreviations Add] Exit Bessus.

Abbreviations, 22.

Nouns, 16-42; form of the possessive case, 16-17; use and misuse of the possessive case, 17-18; singular and plural, 18-21; plural forms of foreign origin, 20; gender, 21; abbreviations, 22; misused, 22-42; gerunds and verbal nouns, 50-51.