Timeline for Can the period be dropped in "vs" when used as part of a compound modifier?
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| Feb 11, 2016 at 7:17 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Dec 13, 2015 at 7:03 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Note that if your publisher insisted on punctuating vs with a period, you could always spell out versus and avoid the issue that way. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 4:44 | comment | added | londonderry | I agree, Ralph.m. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 3:49 | answer | added | NES | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 3:31 | comment | added | ralph.m | Personally, I prefer vs not to have a period anyway. It's unnecessary—just as on Mr and Mrs etc. The period should only be used to indicate that the end of a word has been left off, which is not the case for vs (from versus) and Mr (from Mister). Wish you darned Americans would get it right. :p | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 2:51 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Same answer. Different answer if you're writing for The New Yorker or Sports Illustrated. | |
| S Dec 13, 2015 at 2:47 | history | suggested | Dinesh Kumar Garg |
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| Dec 13, 2015 at 2:16 | comment | added | londonderry | The same question for "an 11 am-to-7 pm shift". I think that the periods in "am"/"pm" can be left out. However, the hyphens should remain, because it's a phrasal adjective. Do you agree? | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 2:16 | comment | added | londonderry | Is the omission of the period out-and-out wrong? That's all I want to know. If you had your druthers, would you include or omit the full stop in these examples? | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 2:12 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It is up to publication policy as to whether periods appear after common abbreviations such as vs and etc. | |
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| Dec 13, 2015 at 1:58 | history | asked | londonderry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |