From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 09:56:28 CST
Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
>> I've always been under the same impression as Jukka and Elliotte,
>> that the "four-dot ellipsis" is technically a three-dot ellipsis
>> followed by a full stop, and not the other way around.
>
> I imagine it depends on where you think the elision is.
Absolutely correct. It was always explained to me that the elision was
before the sentence-ending full stop, and that seems usually to be true
in my writing. I suppose it could be argued that both constructions
exist.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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