True, but looking up abbreviations like these seems often to lead first to the Latin expansion, and figuring out what that means in English provides the necessa

True, but looking up abbreviations like these seems often to lead first to the Latin expansion, and figuring out what that means in English provides the necessary grammatical clue. Also, I'm enough of a linguistics nerd to like the way abbreviations like these work for their own sake, so I thought I'd share in case anyone else might be interested too.