Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoIn the Speedwriting shorthand system, developed in 1924 for use with typewriter, / Is used to denote omitted sylables, so ‘with’ becomes w/ and ‘without’ becomes w/o. Here is a pretty deep guide on the precepts of Speedwriting:
squaresinger@feddit.de 8 months ago
But shouldn’t “w/o” then be written as “w/o/”?
uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Yeah. I have no evidence that this system invented those shortcuts, they may predate it by quite a bit
squaresinger@feddit.de 8 months ago
Yeah, it’s really hard to pinpoint such simple inventions.