Re: Middle Initial: period or no period?

[Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

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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