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Wed, 13 May 1998 08:45:07 -0500
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Re: Another Latin Abbreviation
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A quick jump to YAHOO! and a search for "latin abbreviations"
found scads of references.
 
I chose the fourth one down the list and got -- "cf." is short for
the Latin "confer" which equals the english "compare" which,
I guess, means "comparable."
 
I've learned something.
 
Aloha,
 
Bob Dayle

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