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I was interested to see that this was published in London. A few things seemed to be more, what I would have called, American rather than British English. Examp
by shever73 3y ago
I was interested to see that this was published in London. A few things seemed to be more, what I would have called, American rather than British English. Examples would be calling a full stop a period, and the use of the serial comma in a list.
I suppose it’s just an example of how language evolves.
- idleproc 3y agoA period (full point) is a dot within the sentence, while a full stop is a dot at the end of a sentence. In the 19th-century [1], this terminology was used on both sides of the pond. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop#Medieval_Latin_and_modern_English_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop#Medieval_Latin_and_m...