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My suffix is short for the place where you are,

My infix for who,

My prefix for where you can learn about what's

Mistaken for me in a crowd at least two.

To echo a riddle that's greatly renowned...

I come in rounds.

What am I?

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An eccentric possibility is an

ellipse

My suffix is short for the place where you are,

PSE - short for Puzzling Stack Exchange

My infix for who,

I - for myself

My prefix for where you can learn about what's mistaken for me in a crowd at least two.

ELL - short for English Language Learners, which has a linguistics ellipsis , which is also the plural (at least two) of ellipse.

To echo a riddle that's greatly renowned ... I come in rounds.

An ellipse is a closed curve that goes around, and there are ellipses in the title and body of this question ...

This puzzle also features the answer three times:

Ellipsis, the omission of words that are understood, or the punctuation mark ..., is used in:
My infix for who - omits you are
Mistaken for me in a crowd at least two - omits of me
To echo a riddle that's greatly renowned ... - has the ellipsis punctuation mark (may also omit here as it's famous on PSE).

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  • $\begingroup$ Excellent! But there is an additional explanation for the third clue (My prefix...two.) which also appears in the puzzle. $\endgroup$
    – noedne
    Apr 30, 2019 at 14:17
  • $\begingroup$ @noedne, if along the same lines maybe this? $\endgroup$
    – Tom
    Apr 30, 2019 at 14:28
  • $\begingroup$ Sorry for being unclear, the place is the same, but there is another thing you can learn about there that looks the same and appears (or doesn't?) in the puzzle. $\endgroup$
    – noedne
    Apr 30, 2019 at 14:31
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    $\begingroup$ @noedne, now I think it's more like this figure! $\endgroup$
    – Tom
    Apr 30, 2019 at 14:37
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    $\begingroup$ Yes, in fact it is even a tag on the other site. $\endgroup$
    – noedne
    Apr 30, 2019 at 14:40

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