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Kosty
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sheck wrote:
How about U. Mass?


WOW....that's just HORRID. How can a professional journalist do that??
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Dickie Dunn
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some newspapers have weird style rules. None moreso than the New York Times, which puts periods after any acronym that can't be pronounced as a word -- N.C.A.A. or N.H.L., as opposed to NASCAR.
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