| Thomas Bushnell BSG 2004-09-02, 6:55 pm |
| Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:00:29AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
> BTW: now that we are off-topic I can ask something I always wanted to know
>  I have the habit to spell "i.e." as "in especially" or more gramatically
> correct "especially". Is this a habit so uncommon or has anybody an idea
> where i might have picked that up?
No clue. Presumably just a false expansion of the abbreviation. I've
never heard anyone reading it as "in especially". ("Especially" isn't
a word I use much; I think my idiolect prefers "particularly", so I'm
a bad sample anyway.)
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