In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
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>I am trying to establish the origins of the abbreviation c.q. or cq or CQ,
>sometimes used to indicate that a word or phrase is correct as printed. 
>One of the explanations I have been offered is that it is an abbreviation
>of a Latin phrase, casu quo, which my informant says could be translated,
>"as is the case."
> 
Your informant wasn't informing on April the first, was he? If not, both
his barrels fired equally wide of the mark.

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Leofranc Holford-Strevens
67 St Bernard's Road                                        usque adeone
Oxford              scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter?
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