My assumption on the verbal conjunction of abbreviations

[Sped Tiger]

Can you tell me, wise owls, if my assumption is correct, in your opinion?
• Period-containing abbreviation verbs. These are even rarer, as putting periods in abbreviations itself is getting forgotten and is becoming more and more uncommon. But if you do choose to keep the periods of an abbreviation verb, then you can conjugate it in all of the above-written ways but one, namely, the third way cannot be used in this case, whereas all the others can be, e.g.: O.K. - O.K.ing /O.K.'ing (O.K.-ing), O.D. - O.D.ing/O.D.'ing (O.D.-ing).

 

[5jj]

, wise owls,

 

[Tarheel]

By "third way" do you mean the "-ing" form?

 

[emsr2d2]

Can you tell me , wise owls, if my assumption is correct? in your opinion?

Don't make sentences or questions any longer than necessary.

 

[jutfrank]

Above all, you have to choose a style that is easy on the reader.

1) ODing

This is the simplest way, but you can easily argue that it's distracting because the reader sees the word Ding. I think that's right.

2) OD'ing

This solves the problem. This is the way my preferred dictionary (Collins) has it.

3) O.D.ing

This also solves the problem. This is what I'd use personally.

4) OD-ing

This solves the problem but we just don't tend to use hyphens this way.

5) O.D.-ing

This is worse than 4. Due to the second stop, the hyphen is doing virtually nothing.

If you want my advice, use 2 or 3.

 

[SoothingDave]

Yes. I would use 2. No need to use periods in abbreviations. You almost never see them unless it's in the NY Times, which insists on it in their style guide.

The apostrophe helps it not be a "ding."