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From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.nlang,net.flame
Subject: Re: misused abbreviations, e.g. "i.e."
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 13:37:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 13:37:31 1984
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17 May 1984.

	glenn@fortune noted that people use the abbreviation
'i.e.' ("id est", or "that is to say") when they sould be using
'e.g.'.  However, he wasn't sure what the abbreviation 'e.g.'
stood for.  It stands for "exempli gratis", or "a (free) example".
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