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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I agree. I listen to books using text-to-speech quite often. Early in my ebook experience I realised that 'dot dot dot' was all too often read aloud as 'dot dot dot'. It sounded like the book was being narrated by a woodpecker! I've been making sure that all my books use proper ellipses ever since.
Of course if you're only producing books for yourself you can do whatever you like.
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That got a smile from me because the wikipedia page on the ellipsis contains this: 'The ellipsis is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis, periods of ellipsis, or (colloquially) "dot-dot-dot".'