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Tip #409:  Abbreviations on business forms. 

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Tip #409:  Abbreviations on business forms.  Here are a few:

Postscript can be written PS or PS.

Free on board can be written FOB or f.o.b.

Headquarters is written HQ

Point of purchase is written POP

Bill of sale is written BS or B/S

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This week’s quiz:

Match the correct foreign abbreviation with its meaning:

Abbreviation  Meanings:
1.      ibid. for the time being
2.      i.e. above
3.      e.g. for a particular purpose
4.      et al. for example
5.      etc. concerning
6.      ad hoc in the place cited
7.      loc cit and other people
8.      pro tem and other things
9.      re in the same place
10. supra that is

Quote of the week:

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.  Autograph your work with excellence."  (Source Unknown)

Answers to this week's quiz:

  1. ibid  in the same place
  2. i.e.  that is
  3. e.g.  for example
  4. et al  and other people
  5. etc.  and other things
  6. ad hoc  for a particular purpose
  7. loc cit  in the place cited
  8. pro tem  for the time being
  9. re  concerning
  10. supra  above

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber
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The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor) 

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