Talk:British degree abbreviations

message: The University of Oxford used to award a Bachelor of Letters (BLitt) It is now a Master of Letters as it is a postgraduate degree.  A relevant page can be found here
Also, have a look at the Doctorate entry.  The DLitt is the Literarum Doctor or Doctor of Letters.    
Update:  I should mention that the shortened version is based on the latin name while the full name is anglicised.   Henry plantagenet 23:08, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellaneous

message: Are there any formal practives or even common conventions on diplomas? I've seen all manner of confusion on these. Timrollpickering 12:32, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Diploma abbreviations

message: The correct form for 4 or 5 year undergraduate masters programmes is "Master in", "Master of" is used for postgraduate courses only.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexdawson (talk • contribs) 13:54, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Master of Engineering is widely used, and is an undergraduate degree. As, of course, is Master of Arts in the ancient Scottish universities.Robminchin (talk) 04:58, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Nomenclature

message: There is one subheading Master's level bachelors degrees, which illustrates the inconsistencies in this article (and I think in common usage) concerning the use of apostrophes. Are these degrees possessives? I have seen bachelor, bachelors, and bachelor's used to denote the degree. I have seen masters and master's, but never a master degree. I know the degrees themselves are "Bachelor of..." and "Master of...", and this is really a less formal, more general usage, but it seems to have been around long enough to have a standard attached to it. I have wondered for decades (seriously) if an apostrophe is properly used, or if it is proper not to use one. In either case, we should be consistent within the article. Dcs002 (talk) 01:58, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The apostrophe seems to be generally preferred across Wikipedia for both bachelor's and master's degrees, and is used for both the article titles. It should probably be used here unless there is an overriding reason not to (I can't think of one). Robminchin (talk) 04:18, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apostrophe or not? 

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message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :British degree abbreviations's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "London":
From List of doctoral degrees awarded by country: 
From List of UK universities by date of foundation: 
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replies: text: Fixed. The reference needed updating and the award name was wrong, both corrected. Robminchin (talk) 01:46, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
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