[Forum] abbreviated years

CMOS says, "9.31The year abbreviated In informal contexts, the first two digits of a particular year are often replaced by an apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark). " So when abbreviating a decade, is it (1) the '40s' or (2) the '40's?

[Forum] RE: Abbreviating author names

Hi Polenta and welcome to the forum. Why do the names have to be abbreviated? If it is because the names are long and they are used frequently, perhaps some sentences can be restructured to avoid overdoing the names. I don't think I'd abbreviate them. I have seen titles of works abbreviated

[Forum] RE: Help 2

Promise that topic will be forever abandoned after this last question. Does ambiguity arise with these abbreviated versions (i.e., eliminating the extra zeros and the word "million")? Ulysses said, "My grandfather once owned a [b][u]$55-[/u][/b]to-$60-million-a-year business empire." Joe sa

[Forum] RE: How to format quotation page ranges?

Thank you for your reply! I was actually wondering about in-text citations rather than the bibliography. Specifically, when using the CSE name-year system, how would you cite page numbers? Is the word page abbreviated as p. and placed in the parentheses of an in-text citation after the year? W

[Forum] RE: Ellipses after quotation marks at the end of an abbreviated paragraph

I don't think in the example given that readers would misinterpret things. The abbreviated clip is simply a cut from quoted material that could have come from any part of the main text. Personally, I don't see any reason to make the material more complex than necessary. Everything already seems clea

[Forum] "My son and me / I" on a photo

If there is a photo of my son and me, can I be grammatically correct by writing "My son and me" (not "my son and I")? My initial thoughts are: My son is in this photo; I am in this photo. ("My son and I" could be the abbreviated form written on the picture.) This is a picture of my son an

[Forum] abbreviating "folio" in main body text

Howdy! Question: Should "folio" (as in page) be abbreviated in the main body of text? The book I'm reviewing (frequently) refers to the particular folios of a colonial manuscript in the main text. I know folio should be abbreviated in citations, but unsure about if it should be abbreviated as "fo

[Forum] Hyphenate an abbreviated century?

In an instance such as the following sentence: "Diogenes, the 5th century BCE philosopher, said..." Should "5th century" be hyphenated? CMOS recommends hyphenating century names when they are used as adjectives and spelled out, but what if I am using the abbreviated form? It looks wrong to hyphenate

[Forum] RE: Capitalization of Holiday and Birthday Expressions

Uncle Grumps, M-W has "New Year" and "New Year's" capped (when referring to the start of a new year), so I'd say "happy New Year."

[Forum] RE: Punctuating and formatting multiple nonconsecutive days in a date

That may be, but in many instances the year isn't needed. Why would someone send out a notice for an event in March of the following year when it's currently February? Including the year doesn't do any harm, although having it twice is certainly overkill. I guess some people save these types of broc