That looks like some sort of weird typo to me, Xin Yan. The context suggests that the author may have actually intended to write "months" (or the abbreviation for "months", which would be "mos".) Perhaps it is an

I have no idea what either of those abbreviations could mean in this context. Would you please enlighten me?

Hi, Supplementary for present participle: Adjectives ending in "ing" can be used to describe on-going actions. Ex1. The parents took the crying child out of the theater. Ex2. The increasing sales pleased the producers of

Hi, how are you....? Where you are now? Where you are now leaving? pls. tell me so that i can know where you are now and where you from? Because as now i really really miss you so so much do you know that? You know i dont know what is image now

hi, I wouldn't say either way is wrong, but it's a good idea to be consistent. It's not really a standard abbreviation, in my experience. Without a very clear context, I wouldn't know what it meant. Are you sure

Hi Anon I have skim read the tract you attached and am genuinely impressed by its content. Whilst being full of Communists (a little English humour:)), Cambridge does have an excellent background in the study of English. I agree with

I don't know officially, but "X" is commonly used in all sorts of standard, speciffic field, related abbreviations, i.e. in mathematics,and most speciffically, algebraic expreesions, "solve for x". Everyone knows it is some

It's still a bit unclear to me whether "no." (or some other abbreviation, maybe) can be used to replace number eg. in phrases " Number of messages " and " Serial number ". Would you please share your views. I do

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"Multiply" is jargon. It's like saying "subtract" instead of "take away". No it isn't. Do tell us why the everyday word "multiply" is jargon. This smacks of reverse snobbery gone mad. Whoa! The only