The correct way to abbreviate "Junior", is it all caps or Cap J a.

[NQJames]

When addressing mail, which is the correct way to abbreviate JR. Is it all
caps or otherwise.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

John Q. Public, Jr.

 

[Guy Worthington]

NQJames wrote:

Only the first letter of the abbreviation is capitalized.

John Q. Public, Jr.

You're loading your abbreviation with too much stuff:
If the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as
the last letter of the original word, then there's no
need for a period. See:

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Abbreviation

Examples:

Mister = Mr Missus = Mrs

As opposed to the following (which have a period):

Monsieur = M. Professor = Prof.

It is also recommended that a comma is not used to
separate the Jr from the last name. See:

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/abbreviations.htm

So "John Q. Public, Jr." should be: John Q. Public Jr

If we all do our bit, then we leave our kids our nicer,
cleaner world with less punctuation.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That is the British system. In the United States, we retain the periods.
Without knowing where the OP is posting from, it is impossible to say which
would be considered correct.

 

[Guy Worthington]

That is the British system. In the United States, we retain
the periods. Without knowing where the OP is posting from,
it is impossible to say which would be considered correct.

I'm not British. Do I use short, savage sentences?
Is my style fast and brutal? Do I nail my words to
a minimalist three-chord discord? Do I have an ellipsis
fetish...? Come on, it's easy to tell British writing:
Just think anglo and angular when reading usenews and
you'll soon winnow the British from the grain.

And I'm dismayed that the U.S. still puts periods at
the end of abbreviations.

Yours sincerely

former colonist who thinks British writing is loud & raw

PS. If you're at all curious, you'll find, that although
not as fluid as Word Heretic, or as easy on the eye as
Jezebel, if you were to give this newsgroup a good
threshing, I'd come out in the same pile as Word Heretic
and Jezebel.

 

[Graham Mayor]

I am a product of the English education system and I was taught to use
'periods' - we call them full stops - where words are abbreviated. The lack
of them in much writing is just a matter of sloppy practice. In much the
same way our offspring speak with Australan inflections thanks to Australian
soaps on UK TV

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AFAICS, Australian usage is "British."

 

[Guy Worthington]

PS. If you're at all curious, you'll find, that although
not as fluid as Word Heretic, or as easy on the eye as
Jezebel, if you were to give this newsgroup a good
threshing, I'd come out in the same pile as Word Heretic
and Jezebel.

Call me Mr Paranoid, but just in case the young sir who's
using the bible reference 2Sam16:13 as a name, is referring
to the sentence above (the words of which come from mat3:12),
I'd like to point out that Word Heretic isn't a heretic,
Jezebel isn't the daughter of Belial, and I think Suzanne
Barnhill would have trouble throwing her worst enemy
in the unquenchable fire.

As for me, I rarely curse, throw stones or even cast dust...
AND MY NAME'S NOT --ING SHIMIE