Timeline for What are the rules surrounding a hyphen following an abbreviation?
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| Sep 25, 2018 at 6:16 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | +1 for the thorough coverage. In particular, if the poster wants to attach "-owned" to "Apple, Inc," an en-dash, not a hyphen, is the appropriate connector—at least according to Chicago (and some other U.S.) punctuation conventions. | |
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| Sep 24, 2018 at 22:08 | comment | added | JeremyC | Not in my (British) university! The Profs have to manage without their full stops. But @liguisticum got it right in the first sentence: this is style not grammar and style guides vary. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 22:03 | comment | added | David Robinson | To avoid possible mistakes it should be pointed out that the rule about full stops(periods) is different in modern British English. You should not put a full stop in if the last letter of the abbreviation is the last letter of the word, so Dr Smith but Prof. Smith. | |
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| Sep 24, 2018 at 19:01 | history | answered | linguisticturn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |