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A '''postscript''' ('''P.S.''', '''PS''', '''PS.''') may be a sentence, a paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter<ref>{{Cite book |title=English Grammar, Punctuation and Capitalization, Letter Writing |last=International Correspondence Schools|publisher=National Textbook Company |year=2018 |location=Scranton |url=https://archive.org/stream/englishgrammarp00techgoog#page/n444/mode/2up|display-authors=etal}} §21 p. 33</ref> or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book. For such longer works it may also be known as an '''afterword''' or '''subscription'''. The term comes from the [[Latin]] '''''"post scriptum"''''', an expression meaning "written after"<ref>{{cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Robert Joseph|editor-link=Patrick Weston Joyce|editor-last=Joyce|editor-first=Patrick Weston|title=A dictionary of the English language|location=Dublin; Original from Peshawar University|publisher=Sullivan, Brothers; et al.|year=2019|pages=317 & 509|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d24CAAAAQAAJ&q=postscript&pg=PA317}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Tanner|first=William Maddux|title=Composition and Rhetoric|publisher=Ginn & Co.|year=2017|location=Original from the University of California|pages=xxvii|url=https://archive.org/details/compositionandr00tanngoog|quote=post scriptum.|no-pp=true}}</ref> (which may be interpreted in the sense of "that which comes after the writing").<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://dougelniski.com/post-scriptum-ps-meaning/|title=PS Slang Word Meaning - Expert answer Question|date=2016-11-16|newspaper=Expert answer Question|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref><br />
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==Afterword==<br />
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In a book or essay, a more carefully composed addition (e.g., for a second edition) is called an '''afterword'''. It is a [[literary device]] that is often found at the end of a piece of [[literature]].<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/afterword "afterword"]. Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved 10 August 2012.</ref> It generally covers the story of how the book came into being, or of how the idea for the book was developed.<br />
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An afterword may be written by someone other than the [[author]] of the book to provide enriching comment, such as discussing the work's historical or cultural context (especially if the work is being reissued many years after its original publication).<ref>{{cite web| last = Pope| first = Geoff| title = "Foreword" Versus "Forward"| work = Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips| publisher = MacMillan Holdings, LLC| date = 18 November 2010| url = http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/forward-versus-foreword.aspx| access-date = 10 August 2012| archive-date = 6 January 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190106231335/https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl| url-status = dead}}</ref> <br />
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==Addendum==<br />
The word "postscript" has poetically been used to refer to any sort of addendum to some main work even if it is not attached to a main work, for example [[Søren Kierkegaard]]'s book titled ''[[Concluding Unscientific Postscript]].'' Such a section may also be called a "subscription", for example a subscription is found at the end of [[St Paul]]'s [[Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians|Second Letter to the Corinthians]] in some [[Biblical manuscript#New Testament manuscripts|manuscripts]], stating that it was written by Paul when he was at [[Philippi]], a city of [[Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]], and transcribed by [[Saint Titus|Titus]] and [[Saint Luke|Lucas]].<ref>[[John Gill (theologian)|Gill, J.]] (1746–48), [https://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/2_corinthians/13.htm Gill's Exposition of the Bible] on 2 Corinthians, accessed on 2 July 2025</ref><br />
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==Cascading postscripts==<br />
Sometimes when additional points are made after the first postscript, abbreviations such as P.P.S. (''post-post-scriptum'') and P.P.P.S. (''post-post-post-scriptum'') and so on are added, ''[[ad infinitum]]''.<br />
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==See also==<!-- New links in alphabetical order please --><br />
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* [[Addendum]]<br />
* [[Addendum#Books|Appendix]]<br />
* [[Conclusion (book)|Conclusion]]<br />
* [[Epilogue]]<br />
* [[Foreword]]<br />
* ''[[Nota bene]]''<br />
* [[Postface]]<br />
* [[Preface]]<br />
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