Re: Guardian 23000

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Daniels 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> Robert Briggs wrote:
> >
[...]
> > Daniels, of all people, should recognise the musical version, but maybe
> > he prefers "Op." in that context.  :-)
>
> That's Opus, not operation.

More to the point, it's not usually pronounced "Op", but converted back 
to "opus" in speech, in a similar way to "etc." or "Ltd.".

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