(a) Use upper-case letters; do not use periods:
(b) Do not retain the accent on initial letters:
(c) The gender of an acronym is normally that of the initial noun:
But acronyms from another language take the gender of the French equivalent of the generic noun:
(d) Use a period with the abbreviations for Monsieur and Messieurs, but not with those for Madame and Mesdames:
but
When inserting any of these abbreviations into English text, add a period:
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