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easily intelligible nomenclature, and replaces intolerable verbiage in the description of distant kinships. My correspondents used it freely, and none of them spoke of any difficulty in understanding it. Its somewhat babyish sound is soon disregarded. TABLE IV.--ABBREVIATIONS. ______________________________________________________________________ | | | | Males. | Females. | |_________________________________|____________________________________| | | | | Grandfather, paternal _fa fa_ | Grandmother, paternal _fa me_ | | " maternal _me fa_ | " maternal _me me_ | | Father _fa_ | Mother _me_ | | Uncle, paternal _fa bro_ | Aunt, paternal _fa si_ | | " maternal _me bro_ | " maternal _me si_ | | | | | Brother _bro_ | Sister _si_ | | | | | Son _son_ | Daughter _da_ | | Nephew, brother's son _bro son_ | Niece, brother's daughter _bro da_ | | Nephew, sister's son _si son_ | Niece, sister's daughter _si da_ | | | | | Male first cousins: | Female first cousins: | | 1. Son of paternal | 1. Dau. of paternal | | uncle _fa bro son_ | uncle _fa bro da_ | | 2. Son of maternal | 2. Dau. of maternal | | uncle _me bro son_ | uncle _me bro da_ | | 3. Son of paternal | 3. Dau. of paternal | | aunt _fa si son_ | aunt _fa si da_ | | 4. Son of maternal | 4. Dau. of maternal | | aunt _me si son_ | aunt _me si da_ | |_________________________________|____________________________________| Those relationships that are expressed by different combinations of these letters differ _specifically_; therefore, in saying, in the next chapter, that each person has "roughly, on the aver
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