Glass work-top ...

Andy Hall wrote in

Now that really is an outrage! One and two thirds of an ellipsis!

;)

I always was a pioneer...

Seems at least some modern day printers and publishers are happy with ellipsis as used.

'We said in a leader item, In praise of ... Synecdoche, page 28, May 27, that prolepsis means stopping short of a word that the sentence seems to be leading to, as in "Well, I'll be ...". That would be ellipsis or perhaps aposiopesis. Prolepsis involves the idea of anticipation, for example a rhetorical device for anticipating and answering objections ("You may argue that there is not much difference between prolepsis and ellipsis but Fowler maintains ... ") or the representation that something has taken place before it has happened ("she published the disputed correction on June 21").'

Whether The Guardian is to be held the arbiter of such things...

Doesn't sterilised cream come in tins? I didn't know it could be sterilised at home.

Owain

I suppose you could boil it before putting it on the sponge to wipe the glass.

My mother once bought some stuff called sterilised cream in a tin. Perfect for that use.

Mary