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Bookmark or Share- Why do many forms ask for initials instead of full names?They might be asking for desired initials, because in our organization I saw few people who randomly got initials in their IDs or User account for web based financial software, were funny and hilarious. like Sabir Ali got the ID SALI, which if pronounced in local language (Pakistan, India) will mean sister in law. similarly another fellow ...
- How would you abbreviate surnames starting with Mc/O/D?@Martha Not so long ago Mac Liammóir would have commonly been written mac Liammóir, and it was not uncommon for people to drop the Ó. L would indeed be a better single initial for Mac Liammóir and B for Ó Briain. Ó and M should not be used for initials for these names. –
- periods - Should there be a space between name initials? - English ...When initials are used with a surname, they are spaced and punctuated. Unspaced initials of a few famous person, which may or may not be punctuated, are sometimes used in place of their full names. E. M. Forster C. P. E. Bach JFK or J.F.K. When used as a first name, I see both in print: “DJ said to let him know when you were up." ref.
- What are initials? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeIn this context, your initials are a shortened version of your signature. Generally, you use the first letter of your first and the first letter of your last name as your initials, but you can also include the first letter of your middle name or maiden name, or more than one letter from one of the names (e.g. someone with the last name DiAmico using both D and A).
- Is it okay to ignore putting periods between initials?On the periods (or full stops) between initials, though: it seems that they're still common in the US, but have largely been dropped in most of the rest of the English-speaking world. It also depends on house styles: some US papers, for example, still refer to the B.B.C., which just looks weird to UK eyes. Oddly, though, I almost never see "U.S.A."
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