On Wednesday 25 August 2004 10:41, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > cf.
> > adv : compare (used in texts to point the reader to another
> > location in the text) [syn: {cf}, {confer}, {see}, {see
> > also}]
>> Which is very silly, since it's shorter to write "see"
> than to write "c.f." :-)
(1) cf does not mean "See".
It means "Compare" or "See and compare".
(2) I don't think it is ever written c.f.
I've only seen cf.
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