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 dito. 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)