On 01/10/2011 11:05 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
“&” is not an abbreviation, so it should be “Elgin& Belvidere Electric
Company”
Say what? http://books.google.com/books?id=FI0pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA390
Ah, indeed. The company is in fact called “Elgin and Belvidere Electric
Company”.
I had assumed that the name was correctly “Elgin & Belvidere”. Were
that the case, it would be wrong to replace “&” with “and” on the
mistaken idea that “&” is an abbreviation.
—Alex Mauer “hawke”
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