As the clock struck midnight, the ............... (finish sentence)

@MikefromEP: Did that make sense to you?

A proper sentence is finished with a period

@MikefromEP: Ah, we call it a full-stop over here. A period is something quite different.

@pennynoodles: Plaster?

@MikefromEP: Stop saying that word!!!!!

@pennynoodles: But.. it was you that told me what it meant...

@MikefromEP: period means a totally different thing

@pennynoodles: I won't torment you on this anymore :P

@MikefromEP: Thank goodness. i thought I was going to have to send in Claire Raynor (agony aunt who educated people about such things)(actually dead now).