https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:03:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2439852 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:30:03 +0000 Mrs. D 2439852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was an English major, and was teaching High school English until they switched my assignment this fall. Students are NOT taught to do anything other than a 3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2438983 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:21:44 +0000 mrsjd 2438983@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never heard of a two stop. In legal writing, a three stop replaces language in the middle of a sentence or connecting multiple sentences while a four stop shows that the replaced language is at the end of a sentence. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2438957 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:06:00 +0000 avivoca 2438957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do copy-editing for a scholarly journal and I've never seen a two-dot ellipses. I commonly see a three-dot and four-dot ellipses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2438951 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:04:12 +0000 tinyperson 2438951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a copyeditor and have never seen a two-dot ellipsis...I was going to point out the same article as @honeybear: (the grammarphobia article). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2438949 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:01:49 +0000 honeybear 2438949@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Grammar Girl says three only: <a href="http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/ellipses?page=2" rel="nofollow">http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/ellipses?page=2</a></p> <p>But evidently the OED uses two to save space! <a href="http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2008/12/two-dots-or-three.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2008/12/two-dots-or-three.html</a></p> <p>When I was a minion for a scholarly journal we used the standard three, but you ended up with four dots if you had omitted material at the end of a sentence. The last dot is a period, not part of the ellipsis.</p> <p>ETA: I wouldn't use two. If the OED is doing it as their own style quirk to save printing space that's one thing, but messing with well-understood punctuation seems to me to be asking for trouble. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2438934 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:47:31 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 2438934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never used the two dot ellipsis- it seems incomplete! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2438931 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:46:33 +0000 MaryM 2438931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a writer, and I don't see anything in AP or Chicago style for ellipses with anything other than 3 dots. Wiki says 2 or 4 is more informal. I've never seen it or heard an explanation for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2438312 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 05:30:26 +0000 bloved 2438312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always thought three were for a continuation and four were four a full stop. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-dot-ellipses#post-2438284 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:09:42 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2438284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Writer bees, do you ever use two dot ellipsis?</p> <p>I saw .. for the first time and asked about it. The person that created the piece explained two dots or threel were correct. In fact three meant a full stop to the sentence. Two was a thought contination. </p>