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Old Thu Aug 23, 2007, 02:36pm
JefferMC JefferMC is offline
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Originally Posted by mcrowder
Int'l is not a contraction, it's an abbr.
Strictly speaking, if it were an abbreviation, there wouldn't be an apostrophe. Intl would be an abbreviation. At least, IMHO.

And while I may be just a kid to you, "cannot" and "can not" were both in use when I was in school (nearly 30 years ago).
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