Style those abbreviations the Canadian way. Today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com, I discuss guidelines from Editing Canadian English, The Canadian Press Stylebook and The Canadian Style.
Mentioned in this post, ngrams for
- violoncello, which dropped strongly out of favour in about 1940, and
- math, which is a fairly recent change taking off as the preferred use in about 1960.
Don’t miss the previous post on acronyms and initialisms.
Photo by Danny Chapman used under CC BY-2.0 license.
