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  2. Full stop - Wikipedia

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    It may be placed after an initial letter used to abbreviate a word. It is often placed after each individual letter in acronyms and initialisms (e.g. "U.S."). However, the use of full stops after letters in an initialism or acronym is declining, and many of these without punctuation have become accepted norms (e.g., "UK" and "NATO"). [b]

  3. Abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    When an abbreviation appears at the end of a sentence, only one period is used: The capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. In the past, some initialisms were styled with a period after each letter and a space between each pair. For example, U. S., but today this is typically US.

  4. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Sunday ...

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    For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    In the unusual case of an acronym containing full points between letters, it should also have a full point after the final letter. If an abbreviation ending in a full point ends a sentence, do not use an extra full point (e.g. They lived near Courtyard Sq., not They lived near Courtyard Sq..). Contractions that contain an apostrophe (don't ...

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  7. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    The next three words come after Aster because their fourth letter (the first one that differs) is r, which comes after e (the fourth letter of Aster) in the alphabet. Those words themselves are ordered based on their sixth letters (l, n and p respectively). Then comes At, which differs from the preceding words in the second letter (t comes ...

  8. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Period: The end of a sentence. ¶ Pilcrow: Paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea, or blind P: Section sign ('Silcrow') ⌑ Pillow (non-Unicode name) 'Pillow' is an informal nick-name for the 'Square lozenge' in the travel industry. The generic currency sign is superficially similar | Pipe (non-Unicode name) (Unicode name is "vertical ...

  9. Acronym - Wikipedia

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    Acronyms are often spelled with the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. For some, an initialism [1] or alphabetism, connotes this general meaning, and an acronym is a subset with a narrower definition: an initialism pronounced as a