
N.B. (Nota Bene) vs P.S. (Post Script) - English Language & Usage …
2015年12月24日 · So, "n.n.b." would be saying nota nota bene, which would/could be literally translated to "note not well" which doesn't make much sense. You could say "n.b.b." as that could be "Nota bene benessimum." I can only recommend doing this as a quirky joke and not in serious correspondence.
Proper punctuation in abbreviation of Nota Bene [closed]
NB, n.b. nota bene, take careful note (capitals are illogical but often used for emphasis) CMS adds that "Latin abbreviations are often set in roman" (i.e. not italic). I tend to see
Is there a better way to write multiple Nota Bene? i.e "n.b., n.b.b." …
2015年1月28日 · My understanding was that "N.B." meant "note well", meaning "this is important!" and drawing particular attention to what would otherwise be a unobtrusive footnote. If you have a bunch of these they stop being so special and just become ordinary footnotes.
Why are "i.e." and "e.g." written in lower case with periods, while …
2023年1月1日 · N.B. note well (nota bene) From Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage, second edition (2003): N.B. is the abbreviation for the Latin nota bene (= note well; take notice). And from The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010): NB, n.b. nota bene, take careful note (capitals are illogical but often used for emphasis)
What does N.B. stand for? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2011年5月10日 · If you google for NB/N.B. you get a lot of websites. – rogermue. Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 7:41.
How would you pronounce N.B. (nota bene) when reading aloud?
2015年8月24日 · You pronounce N.B. (also written as NB or n.b., nb) as /ˌenˈbiː/. . See also Cambridge. In other words you say the names of the two letters, just like for e.g. (also eg) ( /ˌiː ˈdʒiː/). You can also say Note or Note well, which parallels saying for example for e.g.
What is the correct abbreviation for the word "numbers"?
2016年10月12日 · Per Wikipedia — Numero sign, it's also possible to use " Nº" and " No̲ ":. The numero sign or numero symbol, № (also represented as Nº, No̲, No. or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles.
"To start" vs "to get started" - English Language & Usage Stack …
To get started (on something) is more like to start off (with something).To start gets me thinking in the direction of starting an engine.
abbreviations - Differences between e.g., viz. and i.e - English ...
What are the differences between "viz." and "e.g." and in which situations each is used? Please also compare the usage with "i.e." if appropriate.
Should there be a space between name initials?
Names such as W. B. Yeats and J. C. L. Prillwitz need hair spaces, thin spaces, or no spaces at all after the intermediary periods. A normal word space follows the last period in the string. That was set with U+200A HAIR SPACE between each initial in the two strings of them. And I use “set” guardedly, considering that that was in HTML.