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Originally Posted by BiliBug
Not in the UK, or many other non-US regions.
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The concept that not everyone accepts his personal preferences in every single aspect of life as fundamental and immutable laws of the Cosmos is one that particular commenter hasn't managed to grasp yet. You get used to it after a while
I grew up calling them "full stops" too - though it was only when I got older that I realized the reason for the name was likely to differentiate them from the "partial stop" of other punctuation marks like commas and semi-colons.