Literary notes about m (AI summary)
The letter "m" plays a myriad of roles in literature, serving as an abbreviated title, a variable in logic and linguistic examples, and even part of dialogue contractions. In many historical and narrative works, it appears as an abbreviation for names or honors—such as in "M. de Treville" [1], "M. Fauchelevent" [2], and "M. de Tocqueville" [3]—indicating a formal or respectful address similar to "Monsieur." At the same time, "m" is adopted in scholarly texts as a symbol in logical formulas (see [4], [5], [6], [7]) and in lexicons for denoting the masculine gender or defining specific terms [8, 9, 10]. Its appearance in contractions and dialogue—such as the common “I’m” found in various works [11, 12, 13]—further illustrates its flexibility in language, marking both a formal identifier and a casual, economical use in everyday speech.
- M. de Treville would doubtless give him good advice as to the whole affair.
— from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - M. Fauchelevent was not there.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - The mind of M. de Tocqueville had the candor of the photographic camera.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - The proposed Premisses, translated into abstract form, are “All m are x ; Some y are m ”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - † m′ y 1
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - All m are x ; All m are y .
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - x 1 m 0 † y m 0 x m 0 †
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - guindilla small red pepper; m. policeman ( slang ).
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón - higo , m. , fig.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson - zótano , m. , basement; cave.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson - I’m on it, old man!
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain - [395] "Oh yes, I'm watchful," said the man, "As a porter ought to be; I s'pose you've lost your way, young Miss, You've lost your shoe, I see.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan - Aren’t you?” “Now I’m happy.
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
