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To: E who wrote (1453)	8/23/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: VALUESPEC	Respond to of 4711

I have just discovered this thread. I am finding it interesting, and hope to benefit from frequenting this site (not sight, as someone reminded us). Regarding on-line dictionaries, I did not see anyone give the most obvious URL for an on-line dictionary: dictionary.com That site also contains a thesaurus, etc. vs

To: E who wrote (1453)	8/24/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Yamakita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

"How is it that I've never come across this rule before?" Can't answer that one for ya E. "And the spaces between them are very nice, but is that also a rule?" See Chicago, 13th edition, 10.36. Like just about everything connected to grammar, "rules" are really agreed upon conventions, and hence not really rules in the strictest sense of the term. Spaces between dots are easier on the eyes, and are thus preferred, sez this maven. "Rules" tend to be pretty fluid. If you want to be in agreement with the consensus of the mavens of the MLA and Chicago, use four when you want to indicate the omission of the end of a sentence. The first dot is the period. See Chicago 10.42 and 10.43. Four should also be used to indicated the omission of the first part of the next sentence. I am officially giving myself a promotion: Yamakita, grammar czar