Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
APOSIOPESIS
aposiopesis
(noun) breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
aposiopesis (countable and uncountable, plural aposiopeses)
(rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).
Synonym: reticence (obsolete)
Hypernyms
• brachylogy
Source: Wiktionary
Ap`o*si`o*pe"sis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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