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Dot or fullstop

Dot or fullstop

Dot or fullstop

(OP)
Can somone explain why when qouting a web address one says "dot" and at the end of a sentence you say "fullstop"?

Joe Borg
www.methode-eur.com

RE: Dot or fullstop

For me (with Greek as mother language) "dot" means the symbol #46 of ASCII code. "Fullstop" means the 1-2 sec pause, while reading a "dot" in a text.

Costas

RE: Dot or fullstop

However an ellipsis (when meaning a pause) is sometimes called dot-dot-dot...

RE: Dot or fullstop

At the end of a sentence I say "period".

Maybe "dot" is just shorter than "period"?  When exclamation points used to be needed to route email, they were called "bang".

Hg

RE: Dot or fullstop

And yet if reading out a decimal number one says "point".

RE: Dot or fullstop

I like Victor Borge's method!

Bung
Life is non-linear...

RE: Dot or fullstop

I think that full stop is used in the UK and period is used in the US to indicate the mark at the end of a declarative sentence.

RE: Dot or fullstop

I like the Shartz-Metterclume method.

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