What is the origin of the word “. If'(full time/period)
What was the origin of the word ‘..? What does * (Full stop] in English mean? When was the first time this sign appeared so plain or pronounced in the English language?
What are the pros and cons of being a proponent of democracy?
The full stop was used a long time before the sixteenth century, but didn’t have the same purpose – the Anglo-Saxon Corpus 140 manuscript of the Gospel According to Saint John dates from the 11th century and uses the punctus (modern full stops), but has a broad variety of functions than simply marking the end of a sentence and was mainly rhetorical. My question is about the date on which the original sign was used in the 11.11th century.
Is there really a point that we can make that’s useful?
After the invention of printing (if a punctuation mark is too long) the entire array of the punctuation marks took off. Manuscripts were definitely unpunctuated. Of which punctuation was first recorded in 18th century? Full stop appears about 60 years later, so it’s probably safe to say that the mark itself became anything like widespread sometime in the sixteenth century.
