An initial is just like a representative of your name. This means a signature could be written to capture the full name of a person. On the other hand, initials are just a letter from name usually the first letter of a name. Initials are the capital letters that begin each word of a name. For example, if your full name is Michael Dennis Stocks, your initials are M.
This means that with a wet signature i. Your signature should not be exactly the same each time you write. Search Advanced search….
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But in AE or should I say A. Tendulkar no space before "R" and there would be periods, of course. Isn't the latter what the Chicago Manual of Style recommends? Last edited: Jan 29, However, it is usually much better to write these titles out in full when you are using them in a sentence: Professor Chomsky , Sergeant Yorke , Monsignor Lindemann.
The abbreviated forms are best confined to places like footnotes and captions of pictures. Note carefully the use of full stops in these abbreviations.
British usage favours omitting the full stop in abbreviations which include the first and last letters of a single word, such as Mr , Mrs , Ms , Dr and St ; American usage prefers A Mr. Most other abbreviated titles, however, require a full stop , as shown above. A person's initials are a kind of abbreviation, and these are usually followed by full stops : John D.
Rockefeller , C. Aubrey Smith , O. And note the rare special case illustrated by Harry S Truman : the S in this name never takes a full stop , because it's not an abbreviation for anything; President Truman's parents actually gave him the middle name S. Two other common abbreviations are a. These are always acceptable. Note that these are not capitalized in British usage though American usage prefers A Also usual are the abbreviations b.
The emperor Vespasian died in a. It is traditional, and recommended, to write a. Non-Christians who do not use the Christian calendar may prefer to use b. This is always acceptable: According to tradition, Rome was founded in b. The emperor Vespasian died in 79 c. All four of these abbreviations are commonly written in small capitals , and you should follow this practice if you can; if you can't produce small capitals , use full-sized capitals instead.
All four of them are also now very frequently written without full stops : bc , ad 79, bce , 79 ce. This reflects the increasing tendency to omit the full stops in abbreviations, and I myself prefer to write bc , and so on.
Note also that, when an abbreviation comes at the end of a sentence, only one full stop is written. You should never write two full stops in a row.
Many large and well-known organizations and companies have very long names which are commonly abbreviated to a set of initials written in capital letters, usually with no full stops. And, if you're writing for a non-British readership, you'd better not use the abbreviated forms of specifically British institutions, such as the TUC , without explaining them. If you are in doubt, explain the abbreviation the first time you use it.
Note that a few of these were formerly written with full stops , such as R. A few other abbreviations are so well known that you can use them safely in your writing. Indeed, in some of these cases, the abbreviated form of the name is far more familiar than the full name. Otherwise, however, you should try to avoid the use of abbreviations in your formal writing.
The frequent use of unnecessary abbreviations will make your text irritating and hard to read.
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