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Originally Posted by irmamar
Is full stop a period in BrE?  I had always heard full stop as "punto y aparte", and "stop" as "punto" (and I've learnt BrE). Copy from wordreference.com:
punto y aparte, full stop, new paragraph |
Full stop is used in British English,
period is used in North American English, and
punto is used in Spanish. These are equivalent and refer to the punctuation mark that is a dot (.) and is used to end a declarative sentence.
Punto y aparte means to end the sentence and start a new paragraph, so
punto y aparte means "
full stop, new paragraph" (in British English) or "
period, new paragraph" (in North American English).