Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man

[Rick Richardson]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:53:14PM +0000, Anne Marcel Roorda wrote:
> 
> In message <address@hidden>, Ted Harding writ
> es:
> 
> > On 23-Jan-02 Rick Richardson wrote:
> > > It seems one could write a whole book on the history and typographical
> > > use of the ellipsis.
> > 
> > Indeed (though it might not be a very big one).
> 
>   Actually, someone did. The following is a 400 page thesis on the
> subject.
> 
> 1986
>          A Syntactic Quicksand: Ellipsis in Seventeenth and 
>          Eighteenth-century English Grammars, Delft, Eburon. 
> 
> - marcel

ROFL.  That title seems to be right on the mark.
400 pages and that only covers two centuries and one language!

-Rick

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