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From: hav@dual.UUCP (Repo Wench)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Irresistible grammar flame
Message-ID: <1224@dual.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 13:58:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 13:58:07 1986
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References: <2859@amdahl.UUCP> <4860013@acf4.UUCP> <12211@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <606@mmm.UUCP>
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Summary: Can't anyone use the right abbreviations?

In article <606@mmm.UUCP>, mrgofor@mmm.UUCP writes:
> 	Any consensus on this? I was under the impression that "everyone"
> is considered singular. (At least on the western side of the Atlantic -
> the British have some slightly different views on the plurality of
> groups, i.e. "The band are playing well tonight.")

Aaaaaaargh!!!  I can't stand it any more!  From my American Heritage Dictionary:

     e.g. *Lat.* exempli gratia (for example).

     i.e. *Lat.* id est (that is).

I see these two confused all the time, and it DRIVES ME NUTS!  A single example
should use the former; a re-statement of an earlier statement should use the
latter.

For all the times I've seen someone go on in this newsgroup about "spelling and
grammar on the net" (I wish I had a dollar for every time the discussion has
started up again), I still can't believe how often these two abbreviations get
switched around.

     Helen Anne      {ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,ucbvax,sun}!dual!hav

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