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[Sydney Grew]

And then there is relevance. Did Bach ever even see the sea? And even if he did, what is the connection?

[Richard Tarleton]

And then there is relevance. Did Bach ever even see the sea? And even if he did, what is the connection?

He may have taken a stroll along the seafront when he went to hear Buxtehude in Lubeck.....But yes, quite.

[Flosshilde]

assumes postures of an indelicate nature with a fifth-rate instrument

I'm sure her instrument is first-rate

[Sydney Grew]

This is Fowler, 2nd edition:

"Abbreviations are chiefly made in two ways: one by giving the beginning of the word in one or more letters and then stopping, the other by dropping out some portion of the middle. Those of the first kind are rightly ended with a period, but the common practice of doing the same to the second is ill advised.

"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.) [...]"

{Thus, I'm assured, Reverend is abbreviated as Rev. or Revd)

But presumably a dot would help the reader distinguish between what is an abbreviation and what is not, before he begins to consider the "last letter." Fowler seems to have got rather ahead of himself there.

And of course strictly - very strictly - speaking a full point is de rigueur even after years expressed in numerals:

[Cellini]

And then there is relevance. Did Bach ever even see the sea? And even if he did, what is the connection?

Have you not heard Bach's Sea Symphony (with 20 trombones ...)?