FOOTNOTES:[42]It is a common error to suppose that these initials stand for ante-meridian and post-meridian. Thus, Charles Dickens represents one of his characters inPickwickas saying ‘Curious circumstance about those initials, sir,’ said Mr. Magnus. ‘You will observe—P.M.—post meridian. In hasty notes to intimate acquaintance, I sometimes sign myself “Afternoon”. It amuses my friends very much, Mr. Pickwick.’—Dickens,Pickwick Papers, p. 367. Oxford edit., 1903.—H. H.[43]‘Or betterM CM IV’—J. A. H. M.
[42]It is a common error to suppose that these initials stand for ante-meridian and post-meridian. Thus, Charles Dickens represents one of his characters inPickwickas saying ‘Curious circumstance about those initials, sir,’ said Mr. Magnus. ‘You will observe—P.M.—post meridian. In hasty notes to intimate acquaintance, I sometimes sign myself “Afternoon”. It amuses my friends very much, Mr. Pickwick.’—Dickens,Pickwick Papers, p. 367. Oxford edit., 1903.—H. H.
[42]It is a common error to suppose that these initials stand for ante-meridian and post-meridian. Thus, Charles Dickens represents one of his characters inPickwickas saying ‘Curious circumstance about those initials, sir,’ said Mr. Magnus. ‘You will observe—P.M.—post meridian. In hasty notes to intimate acquaintance, I sometimes sign myself “Afternoon”. It amuses my friends very much, Mr. Pickwick.’—Dickens,Pickwick Papers, p. 367. Oxford edit., 1903.—H. H.
[43]‘Or betterM CM IV’—J. A. H. M.
[43]‘Or betterM CM IV’—J. A. H. M.