On 07/11/2014 07:10 PM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:25:51 +0100
Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Brian,
You are going to hate me for this: there is no "." after Mr; it is a
contraction. (Off-topic is that way ----------->).
This is an international list; Different countries have different rules
of grammar and spelling, even when the language is ostensibly the same.
In any case, Mr. used to always have a full stop after it, much as etc.
did/does. The dropping of the stop came along after I went to school, at
the same time the comma stopped being used in addresses on and in
letter headings.
It always looks a little funny to read things published in England or
even Canada, but one gets used to it pretty fast. A more interesting
question: in what year did the British decide that a pint should have
20 ounces in it? Must have been a bunch of beer-drinkers who decided
to make that change!
(Obviously it worked in that direction, not the other way, since the
old saying exists: "A pint's a pound the world around." And now it
ain't!)
--doug
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