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I don't remember writing this, but I've just discovered it in a document I'm updating:

eg 'eg', 'etc', etc

It's explaining our house style on lack of full stops in addreviations and acronyms. I rather like it ;-)

Date: 2004-09-09 11:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_alanna/
I'm afraid it's technically incorrect, I believe...

When you use 'e.g.', you shouldn't use 'etc.' at the end as well -you've already said that you're only giving examples, and implicitly there are more that you haven't stated.

So it should be: e.g. 'eg', 'etc'
or: 'eg', 'etc', etc

But given that I actually prefer your version, I'll stop being pedantic ;o)

Date: 2004-09-09 11:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onebyone.livejournal.com
However, you could change it to: ie 'ie', 'etc', etc.

Date: 2004-09-09 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unknownid.livejournal.com
bwahahaha.

this made me very happy. my happiness is only increased by my blissfully ignorance of grammatical rules.

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