Day 100/100: The Full Stop (it had to be, right?!) In punctuation, the full stop (British, Australian, Irish and New Zealand English) or period (Canadian and American English) is a punctuation mark placed at the end of a sentence. The stop glyph is sometimes called a baseline dot because, typographically, it is a dot on the baseline. This term distinguishes the baseline dot from the interpunct (a raised dot). The full stop glyph is also used for other purposes. It is often placed after an initial letter used to stand for a name, and sometimes placed after each individual letter in an initialism (for example, "U.S.A."). It also has multiple contexts in mathematics and computing, where it may be called dot or point (short for decimal point). The full stop symbol derives from the Greek punctuation introduced by Aristophanes of Byzantium in the 3rd century bc. In his system, there were a series of dots whose placement determined their meaning. The full stop at the end of a completed thought or expression was marked by a high dot ⟨˙⟩ or "terminal dot". The "middle dot" ⟨·⟩ marked a division in a thought occasioning a longer breath (essentially a semicolon) and the low dot ⟨.⟩ or "underdot", marked a division in a thought occasioning a shorter breath (essentially a comma). In practice, scribes mostly employed the terminal dot; the others fell out of use and were later replaced by other symbols. From the 9th century, the full stop began appearing as a low mark instead of a high one; by the advent of printing in Western Europe, the low mark was regular & then universal. [Embroidery in a hoop] #100daysofthepunctuationproject #100days #the100dayproject #gm100dayproject #punctuation #punctuationdesign #punctuationproject #punctuationmarks #punctuationlibrary #fullstop #fullpoint #fullstopsymbol #stopglyph #baselinedot #typography #period #language #greeklanguage #greekpunctuation #latin #embroidery #embroideryhoop #textiles #silkembroiderythread #creativehabit #dailyhabit #creativerepresentation #100dayfinale #the100dayproject2017
