I was looking at the shorthand comparisons chart showing The Lord’s Prayer in different versions and was struck by the word “forever” is Gregg, which is written disjoined f ev.
I have always written forever as f (for) e v joined. I looked in my 1916 dictionary to see if there was a conflicting word such as fever, fervor, etc., but didn’t find anything written f e v.
Anyone have a comment as to why the disjoined version might be preferable to joining the “for and ever” ??
(by wordwrangler2 for
everyone)
Pardon the typo: I meant "forever" in Gregg. . .
I love the f space ev for forever. It's very elegant.
The rule is stated in paragraph 170 of the Anniversary manual, "When for or fore is followed by a vowel, disjoin f close to the next character, as in forearm."
Thanks so much for the info!
For all my poring over Gregg books, I never noticed (or had forgotten) this rule. I knew there must be a reason for writing it this way.
This rule only applies to compound words, so, in addition to "forearm" and "forever", the words "forewarn", "forehead", "foreordain", "forewoman", and "foreword" are written with the disjoined f. Write in full (with f – o – r) and joined the words "forage", "foramen", "foray", "forest", and "forum", since these are not compound words.
Thanks for the added comment, Chuck. This will make the rule's application easier to remember.
Where would one be able to find this chart you speak of?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Eclectic_shorthand_by_cross.png