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==Etymology==
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''Viz.'' is shorthand for the Latin adverb {{lang|la|videlicet}} using [[scribal abbreviation]], a system of [[medieval Latin]] shorthand. It consists of the first two letters, ''vi'', followed by the last two, ''et'', using {{unichar|A76B|Latin small letter et}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable]] |last=Brewer  |first=Ebenezer |year=1970 |publisher=Harper & Row |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/brewersdictionar000544mbp/page/943/mode/1up 943] }} According to Cobham Brewer, the same abbreviation mark was used for "habet" and "omnibus".</ref> With the adoption of [[movable type]] printing, the (then current) [[blackletter]] form of the letter {{angbr|z}}, <math>\mathfrak{z}</math>, was substituted for this symbol since few typefaces included it.<ref name=Hill>{{cite book | title= The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System |isbn=9780367581565 |chapter=Chapter 25: Typography and the printed English text |first=Will |last=Hill |date=30 June 2020 |chapter-url=https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/703215/1/25HillFinalDV.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710022857/https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/703215/1/25HillFinalDV.pdf |archive-date=2022-07-10 |url-status=live |page=6 |publisher=Taylor & Francis Limited (Sales) |quote=The types used by Caxton and his contemporaries originated in Holland and Belgium, and did not provide for the continuing use of elements of the Old English alphabet such as thorn <þ>, eth <ð>, and yogh <ʒ>. The substitution of visually similar typographic forms has led to some anomalies which persist to this day in the reprinting of archaic texts and the spelling of regional words. }}</ref>