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> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:02:40 -0800
> 
> And do we really expect people to understand "q.v."? Can we please
> change that to common English?

I'm not a native English speaker, so I wouldn't know how common is
this nowadays.  To me, "q.v." is a well-known term.

We could replace it with "which see", I suppose, if people find "q.v."
too cryptic.

In any case, Glossary was using "q.v." since long ago, and no one ever
complained, AFAIR.