Sunday, April 26, 2015

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAM

It is quite interesting to know the origin of certain words:
VIZ.
Viz., is a contracted form of the word videlicet which means to wit, that is or namely. The z is a corruption of 3 a common mark of contraction in the middle ages: as hab, i.e., habbit; omnibiz, i.e., omnibus; viz., i.e., videlicet.

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