2093: Period or Full Stop Sep 7, 2020

In US, the term for the symbol "." is called a 'period' whereas in the Commonwealth nations it is usually 'full stop'. The word 'period' can be dated back to the times of Old English with a Latin loanword 'periodos', but the meaning has not always been the same. The terms really solidified with printing terminology 'full point', a point being a unit of measure. The use of 'full stop' was used as a way to distinguish from the symbol's use in abbreviations and so on.

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