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The comma before "an" should be replaced with a semi-colon or full stop. If it is replaced with a full stop, "an" should be capitalized.

Ah, you must be British! For those of you who are too daft to figure it out, a full stop is the equivalent of an American period.

Now what is that supposed to mean?
*puts hands on hips*

aite, look, not all brits are grammatically correct bruv'

I was referring to the fact that he said "full stop" instead of "period".

oh right. XD
*rolls off bed*

but it is a full stop. @_@

'Aite'? Lol. Oi we might not be grammatic'lly correct but no one says bruv anymore. Coz we jus' say yo, chav, weezy, sike, and blud.



o_0. I think that full stop makes sense, because you do fully stop when you read it. But period? *confused*

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, it comes to us because of the way the classical languages were written--the inflection(the word ending) rather than intonation(the word's location in the sentence) told us what the word meant. So it wasn't really the END of the sentence, it just separated the sentence from those around it. The Greeks used periodos to indicate that a group of words were related to each other and the next and previous group were not, and it came to us after changing many linguistic hands along the way.
Full stop doesn't make as much sense to me, since you don't fully stop when you read abbreviations or filenames

*bows* Much knowledge. Still don't know why it's called period, but at least I know where it comes from. And towards the comment about the filenames, the '.' is pronounced as 'dot', isn't it? So, full stop, period, dot.

as far as i can tell americans just like to use the word period as much as possible... there are a number of cases where they use it in place of another word.

And i'm sure the English and the Australians have never done anything odd with their language at all. Languages and ideas shift and change with time. It happens. Just one of those weird things involving evolution of linguistics.

And I believe the meaning Rachel's alluding to is synonymous with cycle anyway...so why wouldn't we use it? There's no particular reason NOT to use it.

As far as i can tell you have at least four meaning for the word "period"

Period - eg "period of time"
Period - eg "i just got my period"
Period - eg "put a period at the end of your sentance" - aka full stop
Period - eg "eeew, i have maths next period" - aka class/lesson

i just think its silly to have so many meanings for one word.

There's also at the end of the sentence, when you want to get your point across. eg -- Ice cream is the coolest. Period.

In that case you're just vocalising the silent full stop - it's not a different meaning, although a slightly different usage.

Except that three of those have very similar meanings--a "round of time," with a fixed beginning and end, generally expected to repeat. You can replace all three of them with "cycle" and people would know what you meant. The other you can blame on the Greeks. (We also wouldn't call it "maths." It's "math" in the short, because we don't regard it as a plural or some sort of inner abbreviation.)
Besides, you should start convincing people to pare down the meanings for set before you call using "period" in three very similar ways with similar meanings silly.