JohnInKansas, I appreciated your 18 Dec 06 - 01:42 PM message. We spoke in another thread about the trouble I have with Microsoft Word, but one thing I did manage to do is turn off the autocorrect feature. As a result, I don't get "E.g." when what I want is "e.g.", or "I.e." when what I want is "i.e." (and yes, I do sometimes begin a sentence with one of those abbreviations.)

Sort of relevant to this thread is the fact that a member of another list I follow will consistently write "smth" when what he wants to say is "something". I did find this on some online list of abbreviations, but he is the only person I have ever seen actually use it. It drives me nuts, since even though I now know what it stands for, my brain can't help interpreting "smth" as "smith".

Don