osirra consulting

Most people don’t understand that the ellipsis is in itself asymbol of punctuation. It consists of three dots in succession, andMicrosoft kindly converts it into a single character when you typethat third full-stop.

I’ve sat through countless presentationstoday. Many attempted to use the ellipsis (usually at the end of a pensive slide title), but all failedgrammatically in using it correctly, opting for more than three dots, perhaps to elicitadditional anticipation from its audience. The most common number wasseven, which is particularly irksome as it’s not divisible by three,resulting in Microsoft converting it to two ellipses and a full-stop,with inconsistent spacing throughout. Grammar heathens

So now you know.