Punctuation symbols in British English 🇬🇧

Punctuation symbols in British English 🇬🇧

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[stormyiscute]

in english american, its…

. period
: colon
() Parentheses
- dash
! exclamation point
/ slash

[じや-fh]

Here in South Africa we call (-) and hyphen, but some people call it dash

[Oscar-vsyw]

Thats a hyphen! Dashes are longer and serve different purposes

- hyphen
– en dash
— em dash

[aur_naur_leor]

¡ had a stroke when he called a period a full stop

[barracuda]

In sweden we learn that full stop is dott. Hmmm

[vaporbodor]

. = period
: = two periods
() = half O
! = shout Mark
/ = dash
- = minus

[anntan]

. = Full stop
• =colon
() =Brackets
- = dash
! = Exlemoet lot
/ = Slash

[jellybeanforlife]

Well now I have a dash in my name we call it hyphen

[chrisjones]

Omg I used to call dashes and slashes... Well... Dashes and slashes, but noone in my school knew what I was talking abt!

[slever]

period, parentheses, hyphen, exclamation point

[fijaz]

You looks like Mark Wood (the English Fast Bowler)

[eleanor]

Don't mind be screen shotting this so I can prove a point 👍

[laurenisnothere]

In Canada we are basically basically same! But we call this (.) A period :)

[aintezy]

Heard of the rest but not da first one

[eastereggggg]

Sir those are parentheses ( )

Brackets: [ ]

[unared]

Me:

Dot
2 dots
Brackets
Small line
I WILL PAY THE DEBT
long line

[syakirin.]

Oh..so this is why we malaysian learnt this...you-

[Classrepandviceprez]

() this is parentheses and {} these are brackets

[asadmhplays]

Who are you my primary school teacher?

[Tenokanda]

USA calls these () parentheses and these . Periods and these are brackets [ ]