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</div><div class="ydpdb93e081yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Similar point to Caroline's: in terms of grammar, the current British standard is to drop the full point for contractions where the final letter is present, e.g. Mrs, Dr, St, Revd, and retain it for abbreviations, e.g. Prof., Capt., Rev. For initialisms the full points are nearly always dropped, e.g. UK, US, EU (sniff), BSc, PhD, BBC, FBI.</div><div class="ydpdb93e081yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydpdb93e081yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But with titles/places/proper names, as for quotations, you would reproduce the original exactly; so the 1925 edition would be Mrs. Dalloway and, strictly speaking, Monks House would be without the apostrophe, as this was on the gate. <br></div><div class="ydpdb93e081yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydpdb93e081yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydpdb93e081yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydpdb93e081yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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On Friday, 1 March 2019, 01:53:28 GMT, Caroline Webb via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><span>It’s an interesting point (so to speak). One of the many things I had to learn when I went to the US in the early 1980s was to add a full stop/period after abbreviations of this type; by the late
twentieth century British (and Commonwealth) English had stabilised on using this only where the last letter of the abbreviation was not the same as the last letter of the full word if spelled out (so no full stop after “Mrs,” originally an abbreviation of
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><span>Presumably this style marker was not rigid in the 1920s—or Woolf and her press favoured the US approach.</span></p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><span>Caroline</span></p>
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<div class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544yqt5203000150" id="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544yqt57160"><p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+caroline.webb=newcastle.edu.au@lists.osu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anne Fernald via Vwoolf<br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 1 March 2019 12:43 PM<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> Mark Hussey <mhussey@verizon.net><br clear="none">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Mrs. vs Mrs</span></p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal">That's right, Mark,</p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal">Since the first UK edition used the period, I reinstated it for CUP even though subsequent English editions dropped it. (It's always been part of the US editions.)</p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal">A</p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:48 PM Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The period is there in the first UK and US editions (according to Kirkpatrick and Clarke), but it seems often to be omitted on the dustjacket copy of various
editions (e.g. the Shakespeare Head).</span></p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Vwoolf
[mailto:<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces%2Bmhussey" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">vwoolf-bounces+mhussey</a>=<a href="mailto:verizon.net@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">verizon.net@lists.osu.edu</a>]
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<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Mrs. vs Mrs</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There must have been discussion of this at some point that I am missing.
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is it Mrs. Dalloway (with the period) or Mrs Dalloway (without)? The Cambridge edition uses "Mrs." and the Hogarth Press edition uses "Mrs" -- is one preferred
over the other?</span></p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks for any help,</span></p>
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<p class="ydp4e0959e6yiv8184520544MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Catherine</span></p>
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