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post scriptum en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of postscriptum.
   alt of postscriptum
   • Post Scriptum — Long as this letter has grown, I find it necessary to append a postscript ; if possible, a short one. 1839, George Gordon N. Byron, Life, letters and journals of lord Byron, with notes, [by T. Moore]:
   • P.P.P.S. Apparantly^([sic]) the rule is also that you are not supposed to write post scriptums in English papers either. So there you go. Live and learn. Or I guess in your case you can die and learn, too. 2010, Melissa Glenn Haber, Dear Anjali, New York, N.Y.: Aladdin, →ISBN, page 164:
   • DYSART: I got your letter. Thank you. [Pause.] Also the Post Scriptum. / ALAN [defensively]: That's the right word. My mum told me. It's Latin for 'After-writing'. 1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 27”, in Equus, page 84:
   • Post Scriptum — I regret that time does not permit me to re-write and correct and condense the whole of this communication. 1904, Ohio state medical society, Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting:
   • Then each one begins to add enigmatical post scriptums to her letters. 1904 April 7, “Recent Fiction”, in The Independent: A Weekly Magazine, volume LVI, number 2888, New York, N.Y., page 795, column 1:
   • We can’t pass on to another subject until we quote a couple of those “post scriptums” at the end of Jim’s message. 1940 December 28, “Jim Owen Offers to Scare Quails and Felt Comes Out With News Chat”, in Charles E. ‘Chick’ Lewis, editor, Showmen’s Trade Review, volume 33, number 23, page 12, column 2:
   • Have you ever written “PS” at the end of a letter? If so, you've used Latin words. “PS” stands for the Latin words “post scriptum”, or “after the writing”. [2004, Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World:

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