Poll time!

[conuly]

[Poll #443670]

Comments

[conuly]

This, I did not know. I was told that Brits say full stop all the time.

[farraige.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've always harboured the notion that it's dialectal. You never here people call it 'period' in this country. Here, 'period' only ever refers to menstrual bleeding or a period of time.