Re: Middle Initial: period or no period?

Subject: Re: Middle Initial: period or no period?
From: Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 16:10:36 -0800

Interesting comment here, https://english.stackexchange.com/a/229495.

"In British English, it is incorrect to place a full stop after an abbreviation where the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the word.

So: Mr not Mr. as Mister ends in "r" But Wed. for Wednesday"


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