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From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:07:37 +0000
Lovely, Bob!  

I keep forgetting that word, "ellipsis".  It's not on the keyboard so you have 
to find the key combination to generate it –, rather than the hyphen -

In Word it's Ctrl - - (numeric keypad).  On the Mac it's Alt - -.

Chris

On 14 Nov 2009, at 21:50, Bob Whitmire wrote:

> Excellent use of the comma to emphasize "again," though my preference  
> would have been an ellipsis. But then that usually means something  
> left out, though in a lot of fiction I read, it tends to denote a  
> pause rather than an omission. Perhaps a dash? <g> Of course this from  
> someone who routinely spells emphasize with a z and puts the comma  
> inside the quote marks. <wink>

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