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Originally Posted by HarryT
Context is key, as has been said. Chemists talk about the Periodic Table; theatre producers talk about period costume. But the word "period", with no understandable context (and its use as a punctuation mark would be completely meaningless to the average British reader) would bring menstrual cycles to the mind of the average British reader in the absence of any other context.
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What is your basis for making that statement? I am not contesting the potential truth of it, it might be, but it seems odd to me at least.
