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22.4 punctuation 1. Some acronyms have become words in their own right, and maybe found with or without capitalization.
2. The letters of an acronym are not separated by periods (.). However, some authors write UK. and USA. rather than UK and USA.
YES ALSO POSSIBLE 1 We have developed a what you see is what you get
(
WYSIWYG ) approach to map digitizing. Following
ab wysiwygb philosophy, we have developed a novel approach to map digitizing.
1 The objections are part of ab NIMBYb ,
or Not in My Backyard, pattern of responses. Policy scholars dedicated to efficient urban and industrial planning have long tried to understand the “
nimby syndrome in order to overcome local resistance to controversial land uses.
2 The
USA and the
UK are allies. The
U.S.A. and the
U.K. are allies.
A.
Wallwork, English for Research Usage, Style, and Grammar,DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1593-0_23, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
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