//www.ad2buzz.com/2022/01/25/chicago-style-workout-61-periods/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chicago-style-workout-61-periods from the chicago manual of style sun, 20 feb 2022 15:28:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 //www.ad2buzz.com/2022/01/25/chicago-style-workout-61-periods/#comment-1553 thu, 03 feb 2022 13:47:49 +0000 //www.ad2buzz.com/?p=12495#comment-1553 i enjoyed today’s quiz, but take exception to the answers for questions 8 and 9. first, the wording of question 8 seems to imply replacing single periods (using the plural to parallel the plural “abbreviations”). the hyphen, as in your examples, may conceivably stand in for an ellipsis, but certainly not a single period. when, though, has an ellipsis ever been used in these cases? can you imagine “c. . .o” or “c.o” (with no period following the “o”) as an abbreviation for “in care of”? finally, in question 9, the noun “decimal” properly refers to a number expressed in decimal form; only by shorthand might it refer to a “decimal point.”

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