• rainwall@piefed.social
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    May not be common, but I’ve heard it in american slang. I think its more an old carry over from telegrams that never quite left our shared language.

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      1 month ago

      Did telegrams use full-stop? They pretty much only used STOP, no?

      It seems more likely that your man picked it up from a British influence, like a friend or something.

      • PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I’ve been hearing it in regular language for 30 years now across all of lower Michigan and upper Wisconsin. It’s very decidedly present in American English, thought it might be less common than in Britain.