O Canada!
Happy Canada Day!
July 1st is Canada’s birthday. Happy birthday to all Canadians!
Bet. You. Read. This. With. A. Pause. After. Each. Period.
You paused after each period, didn’t you?
Punctuation is an important part of reading and writing; it is most often at the end of a sentence but also used to identify numbers. Many countries have different rules about the full stop or period.
The period at the end of a sentence was first used in Roman inscriptions to separate words or phrases. But there are languages that do not use a full stop at the end of a sentence, some use a vertical line, some a round circle and some just a space.
In Chinese and Japanese, for example, the full stop is a small circle. 。