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To: Cyber Liberty

I’ve always wondered about that rule.

How about if a sentence ends with a word that has a period such as Jr., etc., Mrs.?

Do you write it as ‘etc..’ or ‘Mr..’?


48 posted on 12/24/2013 10:12:40 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I don’t know. I’ve never seen two periods in general use, so I think in that case the period gets sucked into the abbreviation.


54 posted on 12/24/2013 10:25:09 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Three dots is the accepted rule.


74 posted on 12/24/2013 11:15:51 AM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
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To: Jack Hydrazine; Cyber Liberty

Three dots the accepted rule...

http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/ellipses.asp


77 posted on 12/24/2013 11:19:36 AM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
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