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To an American, I think, ending a sentence expressing a simple, emphatic point with the phrase "full stop" sounds somehow more intelligent than ending it with the word "period", even though they mean exactly the same thing both idiomatically and literally.

I caught myself using the longer term to explain my change to a Wikipedia page last night. The page sees a fair amount of daily activity and I am rather surprised that it hasn't been reverted yet (even though I think my change is justified). I wonder if the "full stop" has tricked people into thinking I am British and therefore superhumanly correct.