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

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 13 July 2014 13:31:45 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


" Writing things like hippo', bra', 'cello and 'phone will, not to mince 
words, make you look like an affected old fuddy duddy who doesn't quite 
approve of anything that's happened since 1912."

I shall continue to use 'phone in colloquial writing and telephone in formal 
writing.  I have no problem with its resulting in my being labelled a 
fuddy-duddy. ;-)

Lisi