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In Europe when the word " number " is abbreviated they write Nr. which makes good sense as both letters are in the word. But we would write No. as in No. 28 North street. Why the the letter "o" .
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.But F nombre is number in the quantitative sense. For No. 28 etc. they use num�ro, which they also abbreviate no, or rather usually n�. It prob comes from both the ablative of Clanad's Lat numerus and Italian numero as in numero uno. These and other Romance forms all come from that Lat numerus, but German goes in for 'linguistic purism' and abbreviates the German form Nummer as Nr.