Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Meeting: writing With (AP) Style

Is it Lieutenant Luis Rafelson or Lt. Luis Rafelson?

It's Lt. AP Style, under "military title," offers a list of such titles that should be abbreviated. Lieutenant is on that list.

Additionally, it offers a subhed of "firefighters, police officers" which says this:

Use the abbreviations listed here when a military-style title is used before the name of a firefighter or police officer outside a direct quotation.

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