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[1] It is possible that Peirce and Rees chose "tog" as a three-letter term, mirroring "clo", based on the informal word "togs" meaning "clothing", which according to the Oxford English Dictionary is a contraction of the 19th century thieves' cant word togeman, cognate with toga, meaning "cloak or loose coat". [3]
The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
Tog(s) or TOG(s) may refer to: ACM Transactions on Graphics, a scientific journal covering computer graphics; Bruce Tognazzini's nickname; Clothing, sometimes referred to as "togs" Tog, short for "togman", a cloak or loose coat; Swimming togs, a swimsuit, sometimes shortened to "togs" TOG (hackerspace), a hackerspace in Dublin, Ireland
Another type of spelling characteristic is related to word origin. For example, when representing a vowel, y represents the sound / ɪ / in some words borrowed from Greek (reflecting an original upsilon ), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter i .
The Online Etymology Dictionary has been referenced by Oxford University's "Arts and Humanities Community Resource" catalog as "an excellent tool for those seeking the origins of words" [6] and cited in the Chicago Tribune as one of the "best resources for finding just the right word". [7]
The tautog (Tautoga onitis), also known as the blackfish, is a species of wrasse native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to South Carolina.This species inhabits hard substrate habitats in inshore waters at depths from 1 to 75 m (5 to 245 ft).
Etymological Bibliography of Take Our Word For It, the only Weekly Word-origin Webzine; Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IEED) at Leiden University; Internet Archive Search: Etymological Dictionary Etymological Dictionaries in English at the Internet archive