Hi, I've never seen this expression abbreviated. It seems to me to be important enough to spell out in full, so that someone later can't say 'Oh, I didn't know that was what your abbreviation meant.' Best wishes,

What is 'the/a short end of the deal'? -- the disadvantageous side. Does this date expression 7/5 mean 7th of May? -- Or the 5th of July. No matter what any style guide tells you, there will always be confused readers if you use numerals only.

It's a wonderful and courteous way of saying "i hope you're doing well".  In this day and age of abbreviations and misspellings, it's unfortunately one of the many rapidly disappearing expressions of the endangered species

What does "clinical" mean in the expression, "clinical professor of medicine"? __ <mod note: originally posted here . -- T.>

You could say "presented to us", which indicates a fairly neutral viewpoint. You could also say "given to us", but that tends to suggest that life is something to be desired, so it's less neutral. (By the way, the

Mr. XYZ Vice P resident XYZ Corporation M umbai Dear Mr. XYZ Re: Change of Designation. I would like to sincerely thank you for promoting me to the position of Assistant Manager in XYZ C orporation. This is an opportunity for advancement, and

Hi N2G, ' etc' is an abbreviation for et cetera , a latin expression that means "and the rest." Therefore, we do not need to add and before etc .

Hi there all. Can anyone help me with this one? Attorney General can be abbreviated to AG. Likewise, Solicitor General or Witch Finder General can be abbreviated to SG and WFG respectively. When one AG meets with another AG the correct grammar

Anonymous wrote: 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 have a reason for

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly