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by frosted-flakes 6y ago
[Nitpick fixed. Thanks.]
- bluGill 6y agoThe period as a thousands separator is common in some English speaking areas. A minority of them for sure, but there are a few that do it that way.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoWhich ones? I tried to find some before submitting my previous comment, but was unable to find any.
- taeric 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator My favorite one is India's tradition of grouping by hundred thousand.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoAll of the English-speaking areas listed on that page use a period as a decimal separator. Interestingly, Canada uses both characters as decimal separators, but English always uses a period, and French always uses a comma. That's probably also why Canada also uses a space as a thousands separator, not a comma like the US.
- dewy 6y agoOP's country of Denmark, for one!: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator See the Examples of Use section of that Wikipedia page for a more extensive list.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoDenmark is not an English-speaking area though.
- ouchjars 6y agoI see it as a feature of Euro English, like writing "XIV century" instead of "19th" or saying "actual" with the meaning of "current". Language change caused by an influx of non-native speakers is not a new thing for English.