Drs. = female doctor?

@MontereyJack,

Actually, it depends on whether the title is a contraction of the full word or an abbreviation.

For example,
Doctor becomes D----r, and needs no period.
Professor becomes Prof. (not Prof----r) and therefore does need a period.

So, technically, it would be 'Dear Mr Jones,' not 'Dear Mr. Jones' in a letter.

It doesn't really matter too much nowadays, like when people use 'less' rather than 'fewer' in lots of circumstances! Even companies advertise saying things like 'now with less calories!' when it really should be 'fewer calories'!

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@oristarA,

When referring to multiple doctors, or whatever else, you pluralize the "Drs."

As in Surgeons General, Attorneys General, etc. not Surgeon Generals, or Attorney Generals.

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@oristarA,

The English language is the greatest artifact that God has inspired man to create.

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@OmSigDAVID,

The English language is the greatest artifact that God has allowed mankind to create.

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I am so confuse, why in some country they use dra. as abbrevation for a woman's doctor.

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@Fatma,

Different languages have different rules.

In English both males and females in the profession are called "doctor". This is Abbreviated "Dr.". In Spanish males are called "doctor" which is abbreviated Dr. and females are called "doctora" which is abbreviated Dra.

There is nothing to get confused about. Rules are just rules.

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@Philip Hudson,

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The English language is the greatest artifact that God has inspired man to create.

Which proves there is no god, Philip. Because every language is the same in terms of complexity and beauty.

A loving god would not have encouraged folks to advance such a narrow-minded notion. He would have smited you upside the head real good.

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@Philip Hudson,

Philip Hudson wrote:

The English language is the greatest artifact that God has inspired man to create.

I disagree. I think the Romance languages are more elegant and beautiful than English, especially French, which is capable of great precision.

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@centrox,

Than why did God write the Bible in English?

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@maxdancona,

maxdancona wrote:

Than why did God write the Bible in English?

That was King James, wasn't it?

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@centrox,

Always topical.

Quote:

The remains of five Archbishops of Canterbury have been found beneath a medieval parish church next to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence.

Builders renovating the Garden Museum, housed at the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, found a hidden crypt containing 30 lead coffins.

Site manager Karl Patten said: "We discovered numerous coffins - and one of them had a gold crown on top of it".

The remains date back to the 1660s.
Two of the coffins had nameplates - one for Richard Bancroft (in office from 1604 to 1610) and one for John Moore (1783 to 1805) whose wife, Catherine Moore, also had a coffin plate.

Bancroft was the chief overseer of the publication of a new English translation of the Bible - the King James Bible - which began in 1604 and was published in 1611.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39613462