Re: Middle Initial: period or no period?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

Funny, I've read thousands of British books and magazine articles
without ever noticing that.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/University%20of%20Oxford%20Style%20Guide.pdf

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 4:10 PM Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
>
> 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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