Another Reason to Love the Chicago Manual of Style

[gnomi]

Their online Q&A is beautifully snarky:

Q. Hello, Wise Ones. If you were me, how would you pluralize B-26? B-26es? B-26s? (Not, I’m pretty sure, B-26’s.) None of them look right to me.

A. If we were you, of course, none of them would look right. But since we are CMOS, “B-26s” looks just fine. Please see CMOS 9.54.

Q. Are periods always used with the initials of a person’s name? This is for use not with running text, but rather on a memorial on a university campus. And the donor sees no value in the use of periods.

A. The donor is usually right. Chicago style does require periods after name initials, but display type is not bound by such rules.

Q. Apparently from now on the ellipsis has been banned. Which punctuation marks can take its place?

A. Hmm. Is this a state or local ordinance? (Surely not federal—Congress would never cooperate on that.) Unless we missed a major memo, I’m confident that you can carry on eliding.