http://www.word-detective.com/2009/03/vet-a-candidate/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.word-detective.com/2009/03/vet-a-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-33736 joyce barker Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:37:40 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=659#comment-33736 brilliant! m level of annoyance with the wily nily use of a word whose origin i could only guess at caused me to finally look it up. so glad the sites are not blacked out due to the anti-piracy movement so that i could satisfy my curiosity. i suspected that vet is an abbreviation for investigate..but almost answered my own query when i typed in google search and realized that i needed context lest my question appear to be a question about the abbreviation for veterinarian! thanks for the human and the history lesson brilliant! m level of annoyance with the wily nily use of a word whose origin i could only guess at caused me to finally look it up. so glad the sites are not blacked out due to the anti-piracy movement so that i could satisfy my curiosity.
i suspected that vet is an abbreviation for investigate..but almost answered my own query when i typed in google search and realized that i needed context lest my question appear to be a question about the abbreviation
for veterinarian! thanks for the human and the history lesson

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