Aug 23, 2012 · The full stop was used a long time before the sixteenth century, but didn't have the same purpose - the Anglo-Saxon Corpus 140 manuscript of the Gospel According to Saint John dates from the 11th century and uses the punctus (modern full stop), but has a broad variety of functions rather than simply marking the end of a sentence and was mainly rhetorical.

Aug 25, 2016 · It used to be widespread to put a stop for most abbreviations with Mr and Mrs often without and other titles in full or with a stop. A stop meaning further letters omitted, unless using the last letter in your abbreviation. Punctuation has slowly been lost. Oxford and Cambridge along with the new army guide forbid using any stop except a full stop.

A period/full stop would work just as well as a semicolon, but a semicolon is normally used when the sentences are closely related. If they were connected with a conjunction you would use a comma. Therefore, no: a colon is not a double stop. Probably the closest thing to a double stop would be a paragraph mark.

Noldorin and SabreWolfy have logical answers, but in the world of typesetting, logic is not respected. At least in the field of scientific publishing, where footnotes and references are common, publishers tend to have very strict guidelines about where they want the marks.

May 18, 2020 · If you're following US convention, put full stop after your contraction. If you're following UK convention, you have a choice whether to use a full stop or not. Here's a useful guideline for Brits: If the last letter of a contraction is the same as the last letter of the whole word, then don't use a full stop (period).

The full stop thing is not actually the dot at the end of the sentence: it is the mental gap between two thoughts, the syntactic equivalent of "over" in the radio communications voice procedure. It is unknown why the Americans began to favor "period" over "full stop" in …

Feb 6, 2013 · Firstly, a period or 'full stop' signals the end of a sentence, i.e., a complete statement or idea that is independent. "I see. I see" Two individual sentences. Two thoughts. That they are identical is merely incidental. Here it is either a simple repetition or, esp. in speech, depending on intonation, a very different pair of ideas conveyed.

Dec 7, 2015 · As the main sentence ends, there will a full stop at the end. In this case, there will be three punctuation marks in a row: first, there will be a full stop marking end of quoted sentence; second, there will be a closing inverted comma marking close of the quotation; lastly, there will be a full stop marking end of the main sentence.

Feb 8, 2011 · I was taught in school (British, Primary) that a Full Stop or Period was used at the end of Abbreviations i.e. it stood for the rest of the letters. So - Rev. for Rev*erend*, Capt. for Capt*ain*, Col., Prof. etc. But Mr, Dr, and the anomalous Mrs are contractions. A Full Stop after them conveys no added meaning.

In this statement, what is the effect of semicolon in the meaning and what would the change in meaning be if we used full-stop (period) instead of a semi-colon? I would like to know a general rule for how the meaning changes, how it would affect similar sentences, etc. If you know of tutorials on this subject, I'd be most grateful.