What does .viz mean when used in newspaper articles etc…?
The adverbs viz and videlicet are two words of Latin origin used today as synonyms of “namely”, “precisely”, “that is to say”, and introduce a specification or a more detailed description of something stated before. Often, as with a syntactical-descriptive colon, this is a list. Though both forms survive in many modern languages, viz is by far more common in English than videlicet. Also, by English tradition, viz is read aloud as “namely” or “to wit,” not phonetically as [vɪz]. In writing, it is now usually followed by an unnecessary period (see below). Unlike e.g., neither viz or videlicet should be used to introduce examples. Examples * The main point of his speech, viz. that our attitude was in fact harmful, was not understood. * My grandfather had four sons that grew up, viz.: Thomas, John, Benjamin and Josiah. * The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause Having both the word viz and
