My spell-checker doesn't like M.D.s
SnakLanguage
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1barney67
NeoOffice stopped me at the use of "M.D.s" for medical doctors. I don't know if it wants a space after the periods, first of second, if it doesn't like the plural form, or it doesn't like ending a sentence with M.D.s as in "I consulted all the M.D.s."
Any comments on the usage of "M.D." in the plural, wherever it happens to be in the sentence?
ETA: On a computer, on a word processor, on the internet, on LibraryThing, do you prefer a space after the initial? "M.D." or "M. D." What about "T.S. Eliot" or "T. S. Eliot." In print, I'm used to the space. I prefer the space. That's what I was taught. But onscreen, I don't know. Many people dislike the space.
Any comments on the usage of "M.D." in the plural, wherever it happens to be in the sentence?
ETA: On a computer, on a word processor, on the internet, on LibraryThing, do you prefer a space after the initial? "M.D." or "M. D." What about "T.S. Eliot" or "T. S. Eliot." In print, I'm used to the space. I prefer the space. That's what I was taught. But onscreen, I don't know. Many people dislike the space.
2ABVR
Hmmm . . .
For me, T. S. Eliot (or J. R. R. Tolkien, or George R. R. Martin) should always -- in print or online -- be initial-period-space (repeat as necessary).
For abbreviations other than given names . . . including abbreviations for degrees or the names of countries . . . I tend to write them without periods or spaces, unless the style sheet for the publication/press/website insists on them. It's always felt less visually fussy to me.
Thus:
"W. T. Hatch worked at the UN by day, spent his evenings writing a PhD thesis on the development of ICBMs by the US and USSR, and played golf on weekends with an MD from Brooklyn and two ADAs from Manhattan."
For me, T. S. Eliot (or J. R. R. Tolkien, or George R. R. Martin) should always -- in print or online -- be initial-period-space (repeat as necessary).
For abbreviations other than given names . . . including abbreviations for degrees or the names of countries . . . I tend to write them without periods or spaces, unless the style sheet for the publication/press/website insists on them. It's always felt less visually fussy to me.
Thus:
"W. T. Hatch worked at the UN by day, spent his evenings writing a PhD thesis on the development of ICBMs by the US and USSR, and played golf on weekends with an MD from Brooklyn and two ADAs from Manhattan."
