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Originally Posted by ApK
I am familiar with the term full stop, but probably only from reading Douglas Adams and others. (Also where I learned of "zebra crossing.")
Period has several meanings in American English. Aside from the punctuation mark, it primarily refers to a span of time.
What does it mean by you?
Back on topic, as I think I said earlier in the thread, I use semicolons regularly to end lines of C-style computer code. Even as a AP English Comp student, I have never clearly understood how or why I'd use them in prose, and the need to do so has never come up.
ApK
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Actually, most adults take period to mean "A woman is having her period".