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and here I thought dr was the derivative position vector.
As the nerds in Bart Simpson's gifted class said, "r dr r."
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So, what are commas, colons, and semi-colons in UK?
demiquavers, quavers and semidemiquavers, natürlich.
preëmptive strike: this is not in the right order, logically, but it sounds better this way. Get a life.... :-|
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I thought the rule was simple: that if the abbreviation is formed by the elision of letters within the word, there is no ".": if it's formed by missing letters off the end, then you do use a "." (Just don'task what happens if you do both.)
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I have never before heard of such a rule. It appears to be more honored in the breach than in the
observance. Even on those occasions when I have seen "Mr" or "Mrs" without the "." it appeared to
be an error. I think the use of the "." is desirable after all abbreviations.
From my dictionary: note that abbreviation for "cotangent" does not require a "."
abbreviation
n.
1 a making shorter
2 the fact or state of being made shorter
3 a shortened form of a word or phrase, as N.Y. for New York, Mr. for Mister, lb. for pound, ctn for cotangent
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more honored in the breach
Or in Britlands
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Several transpondian references to deal with here: 1) dr (debtor), Dr (Doctor), with or without a "."The rule of which Dr Bill has not heard used to be quite firmly the case over here, but is not so any more. We use either form - with or without "." - and no-one comments; not even if one isn't consistent. However, words that have had bits lopped off to form the abbrev. should have the "." B) What do we call "."? Full stop - whether it is at the end of a sentence or after an abbrev. There is no particular justification for this - it's just the way most of us do it. Some people have started to call it "period" but that ain't too common, yet. Ş) comma, semi-colon, colon comma, semi-colon, colon  But " !" is almost always called "exclamation mark" and " ?" is a "question mark". I think that's all for now!
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>Brits and some others
well, i was asking about it because poles are "some others" :P
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I think the use of the "." is desirable after all abbreviations.
A lot of people seem to think that Ms is an abbreviation, and put a stop after it.
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ctn for cotangent
Typo, dr bill? I've never seen anything but cot for cotangent.
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