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Originally Posted by DNSB
Not sure about AUS but Canadian usage tends to allow using either. Just be consistent.
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The de facto UK usage is also to accept either, though clients may have strong views either way of course! The only time I'm inclined to argue is when they want BOTH in the same book :-)
I believe the younger generation has taken a dislike to the full stop. (That's period, for colonials. Though why you'd re-name a punctuation mark after a feminine inconvenience again escapes me.)