On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 09:28:40 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, > > > not one. Something I was taught years ago somewhere and still do. > > > I only put one after a comma tho. > > > > That is correct professional secretarial style, which I always follow > > too. > > Correct? In what sense? I've only encountered the practice in American > writers (and now Canadian?), so it seems to be a regional preference.
It was done in the UK too. It dates back to the days of typewriters with monospaced text, to make sentence breaks clearer. It's an anachronism nowadays, but a habit that is hard to break if you were brought up that way. -- Neil Bothwick PC DOS Error #04: Out of disk space. Delete Windows? (Y)es (H)ell yes!
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