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Originally Posted By: bexterI have seen vid. used occaisionally...what always confused me was the use of viz a viz...
Ha! Here is an excerpt from an obscure, unpublished work, with corrected spelling of Defoe, who was a writer but probably not an actor:
Shocking as this may be, I will admit that I once made a faulty assumption from not looking something up. In reading Defoe, I had always taken his viz. to mean vis-à-vis. One day while looking something else up somewhere in the V’s, on a whim I looked for viz. To my surprise, Defoe’s term turned out to be an abbreviation for videlicet, which means ‘that is to say’ or ‘namely’, [and thus very much like id est]. My interpretation of vis-à-vis was reasonably useful by one of its three definitions, but not what Defoe wrote. So, even a literary snob can stumble on a forehead-smacking discovery.
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Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted the word "viz" akerley 12/23/10 05:52 PM Re: the word "viz" LukeJavan8 12/23/10 05:57 PM Re: the word "viz" tsuwm 12/23/10 08:45 PM Re: the word "viz" Faldage 12/23/10 10:29 PM Re: the word "viz" Candy 12/24/10 07:18 AM Re: the non-word "viz" zmjezhd 12/24/10 01:25 PM Re: the non-word "viz" bexter 12/24/10 06:05 PM Re: visa viz, or hit the fat zmjezhd 12/24/10 06:25 PM Re: the non-word "viz" Faldage 12/24/10 07:19 PM Re: the non-word "viz" Aramis 12/29/10 05:41 PM Re: the non-word "viz" Aramis 12/29/10 05:48 PM
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