What's with people writing ellipses like this lately... with a space on only one side?
I suspect it's an AI thing because I've never seen it before, and suddenly, it's everywhere — so much so that I doubted myself and just checked AP & Chicago. But nope, they still do a space on both sides.
Mignon Fogarty
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2026-01-30 00:13:01 UTC
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