diff --git src/wp-admin/js/word-count.js src/wp-admin/js/word-count.js
index 0c537ba..d28c106 100644
--- src/wp-admin/js/word-count.js
+++ src/wp-admin/js/word-count.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ var wpWordCount;
 
 		settings : {
 			strip : /<[a-zA-Z\/][^<>]*>/g, // strip HTML tags
-			clean : /[0-9.(),;:!?%#$¿'"_+=\\/-]+/g, // regexp to remove punctuation, etc.
+			clean : /[0-9.(),;:!?%#$¿'"_+=\u2026\\/-]+/g, // regexp to remove punctuation, etc.
 			w : /\S\s+/g, // word-counting regexp
 			c : /\S/g // char-counting regexp for asian languages
 		},