What about Cc: and CF:?
I was taught that cc: stood for “carbon copy” while cf: stood for copy furnished.
If this is in fact the case, why do people still use cc: which is obvioucly not only obsolete but ignorant, as well?
Please help…
Don’t know about cf:, but CC: is now understood as “courtesy copy.”
“cc:” is from the old days, and it meant carbon copy. Now it just means copy, and is used in a business letter to indicate which parties received copies of a piece of correspondence.
In the OP, you probably should have said “(e.g., in lectures at school)”.
Isn’t there something that can be mixed up with a.k.a. (Also Known As)?
It’s niggling at the back of my mind, but I can’t think of it (could I be confusing it with a similar abbreviation used in animal pedigrees?)
See Floater’s and Cliffy’s posts. These are the two exceptions I know of: authors and in some law citations, when you are referring to a number of plaintiffs or defendants in citing a case number. “Etc.” has no exceptions that I can think of. Note that when you use it after the name of one author, one plaintiff, or one defendant there is no comma before it.