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[narcasse]

Growing up I was always taught that ‘e.g.’ as the abbreviation of ‘exempli gratia’ was the correct abbreviation to use when providing examples while ‘ex.’ meant ‘excluding’ and yet today I’ve seen the latter as an abbreviation for ‘examples’ again. Or at least I think that that's what was meant, either that or Sebastian’s been pre-emptively cut out as a topic for a fanfiction contest for some reason. I’ve seen ‘ex.’ used before but that was by someone who’d made a pig’s ear of the entire content of what they were trying to say so that they’d used Ron Weasley as an example of a real world actor. So I ask you, non-British (and possibly non-Commonwealth as well) flist, is this 'ex.' abbreviation indeed acceptable form beyond the boundaries of Her Britannic Majesty’s great empire?

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[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I saw it used once before in the abovementioned example which had too much wrong with it for me to consider any of it consistent English usage but this time (http://community.livejournal.com/boysnextdoor/127897.html) there’s a list which really does suggest that they mean it to be ‘example’.