Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. The punctuation mark of the ellipsis is perhaps the most unusual mark in the English language, for ...
A Cambridge academic claims to have found the first use of a ‘brilliant innovation’ that has endured as a mark of incomplete speech One of the earliest examples of the ellipsis, that tantalising piece ...
An ellipsis is three dots used when leaving out a word or a phrase. Three dots: no more, no less and there are different ways to use it. ‘The space station has a cracked window… dangerous.’ Notice I ...
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