Re: OT St. German Re: Homosexuality and gender identity

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:39:06AM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Had I meant 'Saint German', I would've written 'St German' (standard
> doesn't end in a T but saint does, hence the use of dots).
Ah, that's not the rule in English, at least not as I was taught.  All
abbreviations are terminated by a period; they are distinct from contractions,
which have no period but do have an apostrophe taking the place of the
replaced letters.  (So I suppose it would be possible to use S't for "Saint",
but it's not standard.)

-Mark