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5 comments to "Origins of Common Abbreviations"
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just a guy
November 26th, 2007 at
10:43 am
I’ve actually found factual errors in bathroom readers before. It seems like thay don’t fact check throughly, OR state as fact some things that are ambiguous or not completely agreed upon.
I’m not sure if this is one case, but I’ve always heard the Rx symbol was derived from the Egyptian symbol ‘Eye of Horus.’
Here’s more info:
hxxp://www.endomail.com/articles/ad13rx.htmlWikipedia agrees with the Bathroom Reader, but wikipedia’s accuracy is not absolute, as most people know.
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just a guy
November 26th, 2007 at
10:45 am
Please forgive the typo: x’s instead of t’s. But the link should work if you copy and paste it.
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Worrymon
November 26th, 2007 at
2:08 pm
Read somewhere that the X’s for liquor show the number of passes through a still that the alcohol has made. Mark it with one X the first time, another the second, and so on. The more X’s, the more times through the still, and thus the more potent…
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Marilyn Terrell
November 26th, 2007 at
3:09 pm
If you’d like to know the origin of the @ symbol, check it out here:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2006/11/where_its.html
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Yigal Ben Efraim
February 19th, 2008 at
10:10 am
http://www.abbr.com for all of your abbreviations confusion…
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