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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3119352, member: 56859"]The image is not enlargeable but aren't there more than seven dots? In addition to what you've recorded, isn't there a dot between CAES and DOMIT, between DOMIT and AVG, and between AVG and GERM?</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm with Ken-- the dots are stops indicating the end of the abbreviated word, just like we do when writing an abbreviation. Maybe they aren't consistent but that's how it looks to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not all are word separators, as Doug showed. In those cases, who knows? Space fillers? Mistakes from illiterate apprentices?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3119352, member: 56859"]The image is not enlargeable but aren't there more than seven dots? In addition to what you've recorded, isn't there a dot between CAES and DOMIT, between DOMIT and AVG, and between AVG and GERM? I'm with Ken-- the dots are stops indicating the end of the abbreviated word, just like we do when writing an abbreviation. Maybe they aren't consistent but that's how it looks to me. Not all are word separators, as Doug showed. In those cases, who knows? Space fillers? Mistakes from illiterate apprentices?[/QUOTE]
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