[PW] Re: abbreviation of "John" ("Jno")?

[Jeanne Schramm]

Try this: (someone from NASA! -- apparently -- trying to explain it)
http://www.serv.net/~camel/wodehouse/jno.html

Jeanne Schramm, WLSC Library, W.Liberty, WV  26074

On 6/2/06, John Ptak <jfptak at thesciencebookstore.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the origin of the abbreviation of "John" as "Jno."?  Was
> this an abbreviation of a Latinized John, or for shorthand contraction for
> either a John or Jonathan?  Just curious...
> Jno. Ptak
>