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"Gregory L. Hansen" |
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21 Mar 2005 10:20:08 AM |
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How do you spell "PhD"? |
How is Ph. D. spelled these days? Should there be periods in it, as there
are for most abbreviations? Or is it just PhD, which I've seen fairly
often?
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| User: "FrediFizzx" |
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| Title: Re: How do you spell "PhD"? |
21 Mar 2005 02:03:28 PM |
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"Gregory L. Hansen" <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
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| How is Ph. D. spelled these days? Should there be periods in it, as
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Here is one Ph.D. that does it this way.
"Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University"
FrediFizzx
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| User: "tadchem" |
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| Title: Re: How do you spell "PhD"? |
21 Mar 2005 11:34:51 AM |
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Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
How is Ph. D. spelled these days? Should there be periods in it, as
there
are for most abbreviations? Or is it just PhD, which I've seen
fairly
often?
Usually incorrectly...
With an ampersand...
The "8" is silent...
Seriously, if you are preparing a MS for publication, check with the
appropriate Style Guide, and if you are not, the distinction is
unimportant.
Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA
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| User: "Sam Wormley" |
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| Title: Re: How do you spell "PhD"? |
21 Mar 2005 10:26:40 AM |
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Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
How is Ph. D. spelled these days? Should there be periods in it, as there
are for most abbreviations? Or is it just PhD, which I've seen fairly
often?
swormley http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=PhD
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| User: "Gregory L. Hansen" |
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21 Mar 2005 11:02:45 AM |
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In article <4BC%d.90550$r55.35701@attbi_s52>,
Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote:
Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
How is Ph. D. spelled these days? Should there be periods in it, as there
are for most abbreviations? Or is it just PhD, which I've seen fairly
often?
swormley http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=PhD
You know, that really doesn't answer the question, except to offer the
additional possibility that it needn't be capitalized.
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| User: "Sam Wormley" |
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21 Mar 2005 01:49:03 PM |
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Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
In article <4BC%d.90550$r55.35701@attbi_s52>,
Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote:
Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
How is Ph. D. spelled these days? Should there be periods in it, as there
are for most abbreviations? Or is it just PhD, which I've seen fairly
often?
swormley http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=PhD
You know, that really doesn't answer the question, except to offer the
additional possibility that it needn't be capitalized.
It answers the question in the sense that there are many accepted ways
in use. Suggestion: find out the most often used version seen by your
target audience.
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| User: "Timo Nieminen" |
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21 Mar 2005 04:17:13 PM |
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
How is Ph. D. spelled these days? Should there be periods in it, as there
are for most abbreviations? Or is it just PhD, which I've seen fairly
often?
Old-fashioned style would be Ph.D. (not Ph. D.), while new style is PhD,
and similarly for other degree abbreviations. I just typeset a thesis
title page on the weekend, so I looked all that stuff up.
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| User: "Gregory L. Hansen" |
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| Title: Re: How do you spell "PhD"? |
21 Mar 2005 04:19:15 PM |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.50.0503220815450.10357-100000@localhost>,
Timo Nieminen <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
How is Ph. D. spelled these days? Should there be periods in it, as there
are for most abbreviations? Or is it just PhD, which I've seen fairly
often?
Old-fashioned style would be Ph.D. (not Ph. D.), while new style is PhD,
and similarly for other degree abbreviations. I just typeset a thesis
title page on the weekend, so I looked all that stuff up.
I'd wondered about the spaces, too. It seemed clumsy to include them.
Thanks.
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serpent does its skin." -- Aristophanes, Peace, 421 BC
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