Page:The practice of typography; correct composition; a treatise on spelling, abbreviations, the compounding and division of words, the proper use of figures and nummerals by De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914.djvu/50



type had to give way to the cheaper method of using text type only, and of shortening the word with period or apostrophe. In account-books and epistolary writing abbreviations of ' for would, ' for which, ' for the, ' for honorable,  for judgment, and gents, for gentlemen, were common. Although tolerated in some printed books after the year 1800, they are now regarded