User talk:Simon C. Kemper

d:o or 'd:o'
Hi.

I saw that you've recently added some Dutch abbreviation containing a colon. Do you mind taking a look at this for me?

I've just created the page Unsupported titles/d:o for the Swedish abbreviation of. I noticed that under Dutch a similar abbreviation exists – 'd:o'.

Are those apostrophes standard for Dutch abbreviations? I was thinking about adding the Dutch term myself, but as I do not speak Dutch I thought it better to leave it be. --Christoffre (talk) 22:49, 7 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Christoffre, thank you for your question. The colons are very common in historical Dutch. I work for the National Archives of the Netherlands, since we started transcribing millions of pages using advanced text recognition techniques, we discovered a lot of abbreviations which were frequently used in the past. If they are very common, I add them to Wiktionary-- d:o one was the standard abbreviation for more than two centuries 89.205.143.210 09:10, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Similarly in Swedish. The colon was often used in abbreviations, and in some places still is. You can also find it when you conjugate acronyms.
 * Thanks for the help. I've fixed the 'd:o' link and added Dutch to Unsupported titles/d:o . -Christoffre (talk) 17:30, 8 June 2023 (UTC)