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Re: Osprey books accurate?
Jukka, I truly have no idea what "British Oxford English" is. I am old enough to have received (or suffered) a very traditional and formal education in the language and its grammar and I have no recollection of ever hearing the expression.
Personally, I find the interpolation of full stops into English abbreviations cumbersome except for Mr., Mrs. etc. Evidently you feel differently but that does not reflect contemporary use of the language by native speakers, I'm afraid. You'll also have noticed that (unlike the Germans) we no longer capitalise all nouns, although we used to in the 17th Century, and we now write "today" instead of "to-day" (as was common in the 1930s).
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