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What's an e.g. bath?


e.g. is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exempli_gratia

which you can pretty much read as "for example, [example(s)]"


My mnemonic is ‘eggs ample’. :)

Commonly confused with i.e. (id est), which trasnslates to ‘that is’. The mnemonic there for me is ‘in other words’.


Sorry, I should have guessed my comment would be lost on those who don't know how to use "e.g." correctly.


Just assuming you were being earnest (perhaps learning english!) as there wasn't much to gain from interpreting it another way.




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