Period

Also called full stop or dot.

How to type it

Right ring finger. Introduced in Lesson 14: Bottom row: x and ..

Common uses

• A period ends a declarative sentence and follows many abbreviations, such as Dr. and etc.
• It is the decimal point in the United States, as in 3.14.
• Web addresses and email addresses use periods, read aloud as dot, to separate their parts.

Less common uses

• British English calls it a full stop.
• Three periods in a row form an ellipsis, which shows that words have been left out.
• In Unix file paths, a single . means the current directory.