The abbreviation ℔ may properly be selected for pounds, but some dictionaries sanction ℔s.
The abbreviations that appear in newspapers for reports of markets and of sales of stocks and bonds at the stock exchange, for horse-racing, base-ball, and aquatic sports, as well as many used in the catalogues of booksellers, auctioneers, and manu- facturers, are not to be found in any dictionary. Some of them soon go out of use and are forgot- ten, but others stay and ultimately find a place in proper text-books. In the absence of printed au- thority, the proof-reader should make up a manu- script book of the unlisted abbreviations he has to use repeatedly. Without this guide he may pass abbreviations of the same word in two forms.
ECCLESIASTICAL SIGNS
- ✠ The Maltese cross is used before their signatures by certain dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church. It is also used in the service-books of that church to notify the reader when to make the sign of the cross. The ordinary reference-mark † (the dagger) should not be used as a substitute.
- ✝ The Latin cross.
- ☓ St. Andrew's cross.
- ℟ Response in service-books. The apothecaries' sign ℞ is not an entirely acceptable substitute.
- ℣ Versicle in service-books.
- ⁎ indicates the words intoned by the celebrant.
