Re: What does Jno. stand for?
in reply to a message by MRF
According to http://www.serv.net/~camel/wodehouse/jno.html:
...It was once the habit of men who wrote out legal documents and such for a living, to make abbreviations wherever possible. They were, after all, paid by the document, not by the letter. And so the name John, being a common name in England at this time, was commonly abbreviated something thusly:
| n o
_| ---That is, with a big J, followed by a little n and a little o over a line. There being no easy way of representing this in type, when printing came to be done on a press there needed to be some way of representing this. As it happened, the way settled on was as "Jno." ...
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What does Jno. stand for?  ·  MRF  ·  3/1/2001, 7:40 AM
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