Talk:Mrs Brown

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Victorian Age[edit]

there are many new things you can learn about the victorian age through this movie. Dont you think —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.175.47.158 (talk • contribs)

Full Stop[edit]

Why is there a full stop after Mrs? THis is not necessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Puffinbillyunst (talk • contribs)

Mrs. <- please note the period is the correct way to write this. Same with Sir. Mr. etc SimonD 23:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In Britain, Mrs Brown, without the full stop (period), is considered correct, but I suspect that Mrs. Brown is correct in America (could someone please confirm this?). Although the film is British, the IMDB listing shows it puncuatated. Also my video of the film calls it Mrs. Brown. I'm surprised that there's no redirect from Mrs Brown though - I'll go and correct this. -- Tivedshambo (talk) 14:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're all correct. In the States, we use a period to indicate that it's an abbreviation, while in Britain and probably many of the Commonwealth countries, they leave out the full stop on account of it not being the end of a sentence, and on account of it just looking nicer that way. Um, except that "Sir" is a full word, not an abbreviation and does not take a period like Mssr., Mr., and the like do. LordAmeth 01:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We don't put a period after Sir, though. In fact I've never heard of that. But, yes, US English is fond of periods. 72.78.159.73 (talk) 18:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

British English at one time used them as well... look at any WWII-era stuff. 76.66.197.17 (talk) 07:32, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Complete Overhaul[edit]

Is the author of the plot summary literate? It is difficult to extract meaning from such garbled sentences. I haven't seen the film myself, so I am unable to make the necessary corrections.

I agree completely with the above comment. The article was terribly written, with incomplete sentences and atrocious grammar. The synopsis was also far from adequate.

Therefore, I totally rewrote it and added a section with partial information on major nominations/awards (since there are so many these days!).

PainMan 11:21, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We don't put a period after Sir, though.

Sean Connery[edit]

According to Radio Times online, the part was originally intended for Sean Connery. (Whatever "intended for" means - it may just mean that they thought "it would be great if we could get him").

We'd need a good source, obviously.Paulturtle (talk) 17:48, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]