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Fowler - the original, none of that filthy modern muck - on periods in abbreviations:
Abbreviations are puzzling, but to puzzle is not their purpose, and everything that helps the reader to guess their meaning is a gain. One such help is to let him know when the first and last letters of the abbreviation are also those of the full word, which can be done by not using the period, but writing wt (not wt.) for weight, Bp (not Bp. for bishop, Mr (not Mr.)... (a set of abbreviations too beautiful even to gaze at follow, culminating in h.w., but ht wt, for hit wicket).
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