In the English language there are a group of punctuation points that have been used for more than four hundred years. Among these forms of punctuation is the mark known as the period. The period looks like and is written like this: . The period is a small solid circular mark made at the lower portion of a sentence. It usually means that the sentence has come to an end.
For more years than this writer cares to recall the period has been called a "dot" by computer users. An example would be "Yahoo. com" pronounced Yahoo dot com.
There is no punctuation mark called "dot." The proper name of the mark is "period."
The mother tongue has undergone an awful assault over the past forty years. Is there any reason that the basics of punctuation should suffer the same?
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