Ellipsis Marks The rendering of this punctuation mark is often incorrect. Analogously, in printing and writing, the term refers to the row of three dots (or four – the fourth one being the period if the ellipsis appear at the end of a sentence), not two or five or twelve!
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The use of ellipses can either mislead or clarify. Ellipsis (plural: ellipses is Greek for omission) in linguistics refers to any omitted part of speech that is understood; i.e. the omission is intentional. This punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot.
Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, ABC, and WTO written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form.
Note that all acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms.
Acronyms can appear with or without periods but the most common mistakes will be the omission of period for the last initial of an acronym for example:instead of
W.T.O.
The Straits Times, Saturday, November 25, 2006
A stylish name for a private housing estate - the Quintet, a classy full page/colour newspaper ad but terribly needing the service of an editor. Can you spot the error?
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