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blackrockrose

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Ellipses
« on: June 30, 2022, 10:06:15 PM »
In yesterday's PHILOSOPHIES/PHILOSOPHISE/POLISHES 7-by-many both ellipse and ellipsis were classified as common, but ellipses was 'Sorry, not known'.

I realise that ellipses is the plural of ellipse as well as being the plural of ellipsis, but I was trying it as the latter meaning (. . . ) (and I missed ellipse altogether).

Would it be too confusing to add ellipses to the dictionary, Alan?
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Re: Ellipses
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2022, 10:39:39 PM »
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Re: Ellipses
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2022, 10:23:54 AM »
This one almost certainly falls foul of the regular plurals rule.

While ellipses is an irregular plural of ellipsis in English, it's a regular plural of ellipse.
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