Punctuation of abbreviation followed by parenthesis
Best just to give you the example, rather than explain it. This has been a hard one to solve - harder than I thought it would be.
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
Is this correct? There are two closing periods here, but it doesn't look right to drop the second one. The first one is part of the company name and required.
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Best just to give you the example, rather than explain it. This has been a hard one to solve - harder than I thought it would be.
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
Is this correct? There are two closing periods here, but it doesn't look right to drop the second one. The first one is part of the company name and required.
punctuation abbreviations
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Best just to give you the example, rather than explain it. This has been a hard one to solve - harder than I thought it would be.
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
Is this correct? There are two closing periods here, but it doesn't look right to drop the second one. The first one is part of the company name and required.
punctuation abbreviations
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Best just to give you the example, rather than explain it. This has been a hard one to solve - harder than I thought it would be.
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
Is this correct? There are two closing periods here, but it doesn't look right to drop the second one. The first one is part of the company name and required.
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In British English, a full stop (period) is not used where an abbreviation starts and ends with the same letters as the word it abbreviates.
This is supported by the Oxford Dictionary's Punctuation in abbreviations.
So for example in BrE
- Mister is abbreviated to Mr
- Etcetera is abbreviated to etc.
- Limited is abbreviated to Ltd
The description "limited" often applies to a British companies, although some American ones are Ltd. rather than LLC.
So in AmE it would be correct to write
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
whereas in BrE it would be
Created by XYZ Ltd (best company in the world).
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In British English, a full stop (period) is not used where an abbreviation starts and ends with the same letters as the word it abbreviates.
This is supported by the Oxford Dictionary's Punctuation in abbreviations.
So for example in BrE
- Mister is abbreviated to Mr
- Etcetera is abbreviated to etc.
- Limited is abbreviated to Ltd
The description "limited" often applies to a British companies, although some American ones are Ltd. rather than LLC.
So in AmE it would be correct to write
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
whereas in BrE it would be
Created by XYZ Ltd (best company in the world).
answered 11 mins ago
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In British English, a full stop (period) is not used where an abbreviation starts and ends with the same letters as the word it abbreviates.
This is supported by the Oxford Dictionary's Punctuation in abbreviations.
So for example in BrE
- Mister is abbreviated to Mr
- Etcetera is abbreviated to etc.
- Limited is abbreviated to Ltd
The description "limited" often applies to a British companies, although some American ones are Ltd. rather than LLC.
So in AmE it would be correct to write
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
whereas in BrE it would be
Created by XYZ Ltd (best company in the world).
answered 11 mins ago
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In British English, a full stop (period) is not used where an abbreviation starts and ends with the same letters as the word it abbreviates.
This is supported by the Oxford Dictionary's Punctuation in abbreviations.
So for example in BrE
- Mister is abbreviated to Mr
- Etcetera is abbreviated to etc.
- Limited is abbreviated to Ltd
The description "limited" often applies to a British companies, although some American ones are Ltd. rather than LLC.
So in AmE it would be correct to write
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
whereas in BrE it would be
Created by XYZ Ltd (best company in the world).
answered 11 mins ago
Weather VaneWeather Vane
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In British English, a full stop (period) is not used where an abbreviation starts and ends with the same letters as the word it abbreviates.
This is supported by the Oxford Dictionary's Punctuation in abbreviations.
So for example in BrE
- Mister is abbreviated to Mr
- Etcetera is abbreviated to etc.
- Limited is abbreviated to Ltd
The description "limited" often applies to a British companies, although some American ones are Ltd. rather than LLC.
So in AmE it would be correct to write
Created by XYZ Ltd. (best company in the world).
whereas in BrE it would be
Created by XYZ Ltd (best company in the world).
answered 11 mins ago
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