View Single Post
Old 02-15-2025, 05:36 PM   #3
BetterRed
null operator (he/him)
BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 21,744
Karma: 30237526
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sydney Australia
Device: none
There are no universal 'proper' spellings of honorific abbreviations, it's determined by which style guide is being used. Last time I checked two widely used guides, they had:
  • APA — Mr, Ms, Dr, Prof. — no period if last letter of abbreviation is the last letter of the full word, so Mister, Miss, Doctor, Prof.essor;
  • CMS — Mr. Ms. Dr. Prof. — a period after all of them.
But APA and CMS rules aren't set in concrete, so they may have changed. I can't remember if the AP or MLA style guides have any rules relating to this issue… have feeling AP don't have… so up to individual publications.

Outside the US/Canada, similar rules to the APA's are prevalent, but there's also an increasing shift to drop the use of periods after honorific abbreviations entirely. They're useless clutter, no one puts them after qualification abbreviations - MSc, PhD etc.

BR
BetterRed is offline   Reply With Quote