Full stop

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Full stop
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U+002E . FULL STOP HTML .

The full stop (

A full stop is frequently used at the end of word

, it is used in both cases. It may be placed after an initial letter used to abbreviate a word. It is often placed after each individual letter in

The mark is also used to indicate omitted characters or, in a series as an ellipsis (... or …), to indicate omitted words.

In the English-speaking world, a punctuation mark identical to the full stop is used as the decimal separator and for other purposes, and may be called a point. In computing, it is called a dot.^[2] It is sometimes called a baseline dot to distinguish it from the interpunct (or middle dot).^[2][3]

History

Ancient Greek origin

The full stop symbol derives from the

. In his system, there were a series of dots whose placement determined their meaning.

stigmḕ teleía, stigmḕ mésē and hypostigmḕ

The full stop at the end of a completed thought or expression was marked by a high dot ⟨˙⟩, called the stigmḕ teleía (στιγμὴ τελεία) or "terminal dot". The "middle dot" ⟨·⟩, the stigmḕ mésē (στιγμὴ μέση), marked a division in a thought occasioning a longer breath (essentially a semicolon), while the low dot ⟨.⟩, called the hypostigmḕ (ὑποστιγμή) or "underdot", marked a division in a thought occasioning a shorter breath (essentially a comma).^[4]

Medieval simplification

In practice, scribes mostly employed the terminal dot; the others fell out of use and were later replaced by other symbols. From the 9th century onwards, the full stop began appearing as a low mark (instead of a high one), and by the time printing began in Western Europe, the lower dot was regular and then universal.^[4]

Medieval Latin and modern English period

The name period is first attested (as the

Usage

Full stops are the most commonly used punctuation marks; analysis of texts indicate that approximately half of all punctuation marks used are full stops.[11]^[12]

Ending sentences

Full stops indicate the end of sentences that are not questions or exclamations.

After initials

It is usual in North American English to use full stops after initials; e.g. A. A. Milne,^[13] George W. Bush.^[14] British usage is less strict.^[15] A few style guides discourage full stops after initials.^[16][17] However, there is a general trend and initiatives to spell out names in full instead of abbreviating them in order to avoid ambiguity.^[18][19][20]

Abbreviations

A full stop is used after some abbreviations.^[21] If the abbreviation ends a declaratory sentence there is no additional period immediately following the full stop that ends the abbreviation (e.g. "My name is Gabriel Gama Jr."). Though two full stops (one for the abbreviation, one for the sentence ending) might be expected, conventionally only one is written. This is an intentional omission, and thus not haplography, which is unintentional omission of a duplicate. In the case of an interrogative or exclamatory sentence ending with an abbreviation, a question or exclamation mark can still be added (e.g. "Are you Gabriel Gama Jr.?").^{[citation needed]}

Abbreviations and personal titles of address

According to the Oxford A–Z of Grammar and Punctuation, "If the abbreviation includes both the first and last letter of the abbreviated word, as in 'Mister' ['Mr'] and 'Doctor' ['Dr'], a full stop is not used."

This does not include, for example, the standard abbreviations for titles such as Professor ("Prof.") or Reverend ("Rev."), because they do not end with the last letter of the word they are abbreviating.

In American English, the common convention is to include the period after all such abbreviations.^[23]

Acronyms and initialisms

In

Mathematics

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The period

thousands separator

.

In the more prevalent usage in English-speaking countries, as well as in South Asia and East Asia, the point represents a decimal separator, visually dividing whole numbers from fractional (decimal) parts. The comma is then used to separate the whole-number parts into groups of three digits each, when numbers are sufficiently large.

• 1.007 (one and seven thousandths)
• 1,002.007 (one thousand two and seven thousandths)
• 1,002,003.007 (one million two thousand three and seven thousandths)

The more prevalent usage in much of Europe, southern Africa, and Latin America (with the exception of Mexico due to the influence of the United States), reverses the roles of the comma and point, but sometimes substitutes a (

-)space for a point.

• 1,007 (one and seven thousandths)
• 1.002,007 or 1 002,007 (one thousand two and seven thousandths)
• 1.002.003,007 or 1 002 003,007 (one million two thousand three and seven thousandths)

(To avoid problems with spaces, another convention sometimes used is to use apostrophe signs (') instead of spaces.)

India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan follow the Indian numbering system, which utilizes commas and decimals much like the aforementioned system popular in most English-speaking countries, but separates values of one hundred thousand and above differently, into divisions of lakh and crore:

• 1.007 (one and seven thousandths)
• 1,002.007 (one thousand two and seven thousandths)
• 10,02,003.007 (one million two thousand three and seven thousandths, or ten lakh two thousand three and seven thousandths)

In countries that use the comma as a decimal separator, the point is sometimes found as a multiplication sign; for example, 5,2 . 2 = 10,4; this usage is impractical in cases where the point is used as a decimal separator, hence the use of the interpunct: 5.2 · 2 = 10.4. The interpunct is also used when multiplying units in science – for example, 50 km/h could be written as 50 km·h⁻¹ – and to indicate a dot product, i.e. the scalar product of two vectors.

Logic

In older literature on mathematical logic, the period glyph used to indicate how expressions should be bracketed (see Glossary of Principia Mathematica).

Computing

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In computing, the full point, usually called a dot in this context, is often used as a delimiter, such as in DNS lookups, Web addresses, file names and software release versions:

• www.wikipedia.org
• document.txt
• 192.168.0.1
• Chrome 92.0.4515.130

It is used in many

a full stop ends a statement.

In file systems, the dot is commonly used to separate the extension of a file name from the name of the file. RISC OS uses dots to separate levels of the hierarchical file system when writing path names—similar to / (forward-slash) in Unix-based systems and \ (back-slash) in MS-DOS-based systems and the Windows NT systems that succeeded them.

In

. This means that they are not displayed or listed to the user by default.

In Unix-like systems and

of the working directory.

. (Some of these also offer source as a synonym, based on that usage in the C-shell.)

Versions of software are often denoted with the style x.y.z (or more), where x is a major release, y is a mid-cycle enhancement release and z is a patch level designation, but actual usage is entirely vendor specific.

Telegraphy

The term STOP was used in telegrams in the United States in place of the full stop. The end of a sentence would be marked by STOP; its use "in telegraphic communications was greatly increased during the World War, when the Government employed it widely as a precaution against having messages garbled or misunderstood, as a result of the misplacement or emission [sic] of the tiny dot or period."^[27]

In conversation

In British English, the words "full stop" at the end of an utterance strengthen it; they indicate that it admits of no discussion: "I'm not going with you, full stop." In American English the word "period" serves this function.

Another common use in African-American Vernacular English is found in the phrase "And that's on period" which is used to express the strength of the speaker's previous statement, usually to emphasise an opinion.

Linguistics

The International Phonetic Alphabet uses the full stop to signify a syllable break.

Time

In British English, whether for the

(RTÉ), and to a lesser extent in Australian, Cypriot, Maltese, New Zealand, South African and other Commonwealth English varieties outside Canada.

Punctuation styles when quoting

The practice in the United States and Canada is to place full stops and commas inside quotation marks in most styles.^[35] In the British system, which is also called "logical quotation",^[36] full stops and commas are placed according to grammatical sense:^[35][37] This means that when they are part of the quoted material, they should be placed inside, and otherwise should be outside. For example, they are placed outside in the cases of words-as-words, titles of short-form works, and quoted sentence fragments.

• Bruce Springsteen, nicknamed "the Boss," performed "American Skin." (closed or American style)
• Bruce Springsteen, nicknamed "the Boss", performed "American Skin". (logical or British style)
• He said, "I love music." (both)

There is some national crossover. The American style is common in British fiction writing.^[38] The British style is sometimes used in American English. For example, The Chicago Manual of Style recommends it for fields where comma placement could affect the meaning of the quoted material, such as linguistics and textual criticism.^[39][40]

The use of placement according to logical or grammatical sense, or "logical convention", now the more common practice in regions other than North America,^[41] was advocated in the influential book The King's English by Fowler and Fowler, published in 1906. Prior to the influence of this work, the typesetter's or printer's style, or "closed convention", now also called American style, was common throughout the world.

Spacing after a full stop

There have been a number of practices relating to the spacing after a full stop. Some examples are listed below:

• One word space ("
  French spacing"). This is the current convention in most countries that use the ISO basic Latin alphabet for published and final written work, as well as digital media.^[42][43]
• Two word spaces ("
  English spacing"). It is sometimes claimed that the two-space convention stems from the use of the monospaced font on typewriters, but in fact that convention replicates much earlier typography — the intent was to provide a clear break between sentences.^[44] This spacing method was gradually replaced by the single space convention in published print, where space is at a premium, and continues in much digital media.^[43][45]
• One widened space (such as an
  em space). This spacing was seen in historical typesetting practices (until the early 20th century).^[46] It has also been used in other typesetting systems such as the Linotype machine^[47] and the TeX system.^[48] Modern computer-based digital fonts can adjust the spacing after terminal punctuation as well, creating a space slightly wider than a standard word space.^[49]

Full stops in other scripts

Greek

Although the present Greek full stop (τελεία, teleía) is

.

Armenian

The Armenian script uses the ։ (վերջակետ, verdjaket). It looks similar to the colon (:).

Chinese and Japanese

Punctuation used with Chinese characters often includes U+3002 。 IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP, a small circle used as a full stop instead of a solid dot. When used with traditional characters the full stop is generally centered on the mean line; when used with simplified characters, it is usually aligned to the baseline.

Korean

Korean uses the Latin full stop along with its native script.

Brahmic scripts

Nagari

Indo-Aryan languages predominantly use Nagari-based scripts. In the Devanagari script used to write languages like Hindi, Maithili, Nepali, etc., a vertical line । (U+0964 "Devanagari Danda") is used to mark the end of a sentence. It is known as poorna viraam (full stop). In Sanskrit, an additional symbol ॥ (U+0965 "Devanagari Double Danda") is used to mark the end of a poetic verse. However, some languages that are written in Devanagari use the Latin full stop, such as Marathi.

In the

scripts) use the same symbol.

Inspired from

: ᱾ (U+1C7E "Ol Chiki Punctuation Mucaad") to mark the end of sentence. Similarly, it also uses ᱿ (U+1C7F "Ol Chiki Punctuation Double Mucaad") to indicate a major break, like end of section, although rarely used.

Sinhalese

In

Sinhalese script

after the introduction of paper due to the influence of European languages.

Southeast Asian

In

Burmese script

, the symbol ။ (U+104B "Myanmar Sign Section") is used as full stop.

However, in Thai, no symbol corresponding to the full stop is used as terminal punctuation. A sentence is written without spaces and a space is typically used to mark the end of a clause or sentence.^{[citation needed]}

Tibetic

The

uses ᰻‎‎ (U+1C3B "Lepcha Punctuation Ta-Rol") and ᰼‎‎‎ (U+1C3C "Lepcha Punctuation Nyet Thyoom Ta-Rol").

However, due to influence of

Manipuri language

uses ꫰ (U+AAF0 "Meetei Mayek Cheikhan") for comma and ꯫ (U+ABEB "Meetei Mayek Cheikhei") to mark the end of sentence.

Shahmukhi

For Indo-Aryan languages which are written in Nastaliq, like Kashmiri, Panjabi, Saraiki and Urdu, a symbol called k͟hatma (U+06D4 ۔ ARABIC FULL STOP) is used as a full stop at the end of sentences and in abbreviations. It (۔) looks similar to a lowered dash (–).

Ge'ez

In the

and several other Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, the equivalent of the full stop following a sentence is the ˈarat nettib "።"—which means four dots. The two dots on the right are slightly ascending from the two on the left, with space in between.

Unicode

The symbol was encoded in ASCII at 46 (2E_hex), which was inherited by Unicode. All Unicode code points with "full stop" in their name:

• U+002E . FULL STOP
• U+0589 ։ ARMENIAN FULL STOP
• U+06D4 ۔ ARABIC FULL STOP
• U+0701 ܁ SYRIAC SUPRALINEAR FULL STOP
• U+0702 ܂ SYRIAC SUBLINEAR FULL STOP
• U+1362 ። ETHIOPIC FULL STOP
• U+166E ᙮ CANADIAN SYLLABICS FULL STOP
• U+1803 ᠃ MONGOLIAN FULL STOP
• U+1809 ᠉ MONGOLIAN MANCHU FULL STOP
• U+2488 ⒈ DIGIT ONE FULL STOP
• U+2489 ⒉ DIGIT TWO FULL STOP
• U+248A ⒊ DIGIT THREE FULL STOP
• U+248B ⒋ DIGIT FOUR FULL STOP
• U+248C ⒌ DIGIT FIVE FULL STOP
• U+248D ⒍ DIGIT SIX FULL STOP
• U+248E ⒎ DIGIT SEVEN FULL STOP
• U+248F ⒏ DIGIT EIGHT FULL STOP
• U+2490 ⒐ DIGIT NINE FULL STOP
• U+2491 ⒑ NUMBER TEN FULL STOP
• U+2492 ⒒ NUMBER ELEVEN FULL STOP
• U+2493 ⒓ NUMBER TWELVE FULL STOP
• U+2494 ⒔ NUMBER THIRTEEN FULL STOP
• U+2495 ⒕ NUMBER FOURTEEN FULL STOP
• U+2496 ⒖ NUMBER FIFTEEN FULL STOP
• U+2497 ⒗ NUMBER SIXTEEN FULL STOP
• U+2498 ⒘ NUMBER SEVENTEEN FULL STOP
• U+2499 ⒙ NUMBER EIGHTEEN FULL STOP
• U+249A ⒚ NUMBER NINETEEN FULL STOP
• U+249B ⒛ NUMBER TWENTY FULL STOP
• U+2CF9 ⳹ COPTIC OLD NUBIAN FULL STOP
• U+2CFE ⳾ COPTIC FULL STOP
• U+2E3C ⸼
  STENOGRAPHIC FULL STOP
• U+3002 。 IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP
• U+A4FF ꓿ LISU PUNCTUATION FULL STOP
• U+A60E ꘎ VAI FULL STOP
• U+A6F3 ꛳ BAMUM FULL STOP
• U+FE12 ︒ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP
• U+FE52 ﹒ SMALL FULL STOP
• U+FF0E ． FULLWIDTH FULL STOP^[51]
• U+FF61 ｡ HALFWIDTH IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP
• U+16AF5 𖫵 BASSA VAH FULL STOP
• U+16E98 𖺘 MEDEFAIDRIN FULL STOP
• U+1BC9F 𛲟 DUPLOYAN PUNCTUATION CHINOOK FULL STOP
• U+1DA88 𝪈 SIGNWRITING FULL STOP
• U+1F100 🄀 DIGIT ZERO FULL STOP
• U+E002E TAG FULL STOP

In text messages

Researchers from Binghamton University performed a small study, published in 2016, on young adults and found that text messages that included sentences ended with full stops—as opposed to those with no terminal punctuation—were perceived as insincere, though they stipulated that their results apply only to this particular medium of communication: "Our sense was, is that because [text messages] were informal and had a chatty kind of feeling to them, that a period may have seemed stuffy, too formal, in that context," said head researcher Cecelia Klin.^[52] The study did not find handwritten notes to be affected.^[53]

A 2016 story by Jeff Guo in

According to Gretchen McCulloch, an internet linguist, using a full stop to end messages is seen as "rude" by more and more people. She said this can be attributed to the way we text and use instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. She added that the default way to break up one's thoughts is to send each thought as an individual message.[55]

See also

• Decimal separator – Numerical symbol
• Dot (disambiguation)
• Sentence spacing – Horizontal space between sentences in typeset text
• Terminal punctuation – Marks that identify the end of some text

References

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2. ^ This trend has progressed somewhat more slowly in the English dialect of the United States than in other English language dialects.

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