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Re: [OT] Abbrevition or contraction [was UEFI] someone does



On 7/13/2014 8:31 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 16:33:52 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/11/2014 3:25 PM, Brian wrote:
>>>
>>>> You are going to hate me for this: there is no "." after Mr; it is a
>>>> contraction. (Off-topic is that way ----------->).
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, it's an abbreviation, not a contraction.  As a contraction it would
>>> be M'r.
> 
> This is interesting 'Abbreviations : Capital Letters and Abbreviations':
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/capsandabbr/abbr
> 
> and
> 
> Contractions : The Apostrophe
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/contractions
> 

Let's see...

"British usage favours omitting the full stop in abbreviations which
include the first and last letters of a single word"...

Yup, it explains how the islanders do it :).  But most of the rest of
the world used a period ("full stop" to you guys) :)

Jerry


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