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 kn
ow
>  I have the habit to spell "i.e." as "in especially" or more gramaticall
y
> 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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