# Topics with period at end of abbreviations don't keep the period

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**Created:** [20 Febrero, 2015 21:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-with-period-at-end-of-abbreviations-dont-keep-the-period/25463 "2015-02-20T21:35:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [21 Febrero, 2015 00:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-with-period-at-end-of-abbreviations-dont-keep-the-period/25463/8 "2015-02-21T00:54:15Z")

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And from the [Chicago Manual of Style](http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Punctuation/faq0040.html) (a bit more authoritative on grammar than Stack Exchange 😄) … “[a]n abbreviation that ends with a period must not be left hanging without it”. (Which is actually the issue in the example above.)

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