Is it, really? I'm usually a good speller, but I guess I've been doing that one wrong since I first read "The Hobbit".
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 22:55 *JRR Tolkien --- On 2020-02-27 22:43, Bob Bridges wrote: > I think most people spell that without any spaces at all, ie "i.e.". Also > "e.g.". Me, I eschew periods in abbreviations that are common enough; "ie", > "eg", "Mr", "Dr", "JRR Tolkein" and so on. I add them to my dictionary so > spell-check doesn't get annoyed. (Spell-check always believes me, smart > little bugger that it is.) > > I gather that the adherents to "French spacing" (two spaces after the end of > a sentence - and, by the way, after a colon which comes at the end of a > full-sentence clause) are slightly in the minority. I'd never heard that > it's a mark of old folks, just that some people hate it and some insist on it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 18:01 > > Single space after a period if not end of sentence. I. E. abbreviations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
