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" " What did I mean by that ? | |||
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"Period is such a silly name for it, it's the end of a period, so call it by its proper name, Dotty McDotface." Best reply !!! | |||
"Period is such a silly name for it, it's the end of a period, so call it by its proper name, Dotty McDotface." | |||
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"Period derives from the Latin " periodus " which means a complete sentence. So the term period implies " the sentence is completed "" Smarty pants | |||
"Period derives from the Latin " periodus " which means a complete sentence. So the term period implies " the sentence is completed "" But the term was first used by typesetters to describe a dot signifying the end of a section of text. The sentence ending dot was known as a full stop. It is recently the case (c.1600) that we have used the two interchangeably. | |||