Do I need the period?

How do I go about asking this?

Mrs Tandy gave in to her daughter’s look and only worried about what the neighbours would say.

This is usually how I write the title of certain characters, but people have told me to place a period after the title. I've seen articles/writings where the person also doesn't have a period, so why do people tell me I have to?

I remember reading somewhere, I think in a dictionary, that a missing period is all right for British articles, but for Americans it isn't.

Please, can someone tell me if I'm wrong or right.

Well technically Mrs is an abbreviation, right? So it should end in a period.

But I do see what your saying, though I've always noticed it with a period even Wikipedia's site has no punctuation after it.

I'm trying to look around for a reasonable explanation on the internet—but its 6:11 am in the morning, and I think you are right. Perhaps it is an European/American thing. I wouldn't doubt it. Could be like the double quotes (") and the single quotes (').

But when I have more time, I'll look around for an answer, because I always tell people to put a period after that, but if it is debatable then It's like telling someone to use single quotes when they used double quotes. It just doesn't matter.

Thanks for looking into it, Clau.

I think you could use either of them. I looked on Wikipedia, and found this:

Mrs or Mrs. is an English title used for women... blah blah blah

I suppose that means you can use either of them, as Wikipedia has put them both down. it says the same thing when you look for "Mr." I think it all depends on how you want to write it.

Hope I've helped,

Kaz

Thanks, Kaz. I really ought to look at Wikipedia more often.

Note carefully the use of full stops in these abbreviations. British usage favours omitting the full stop in abbreviations which include the first and last letters of a single word, such as Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr and St; American usage prefers (A) Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr. and St., with full stops. Most other abbreviated titles, however, require a full stop

Just to make it official.

Hahaha... yeah. I was about to say, I love periods in those sorts of things. But if you're British!

Thank you for that, Jack.

I guess Australia goes with the British way. Yay! Those silly full-stops just annoy me.