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Another use of ellipsis, the omission of unnecessary repeated information, is in zeugma. Zeugma, from the Greek word for "yoke", is stringing several sentences which share a common binding word together as one. For example:

• "Mr. Jones took his coat and his leave."
• "Friends, Romans, Countryman, lend me your ears!"

A much more interesting subset of zeugma is called a syllepsis, in which sentences are still joined by a common word, but a different meaning of the word is used each time. Some examples:

• "You held your breath, and the door for me" -Alanis Morrisette
• "Are you getting fit or having one?" -Hawkeye in M*A*S*H