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To: society-by-contract

How about “most unique”? “A myriad of”?

As to your question regarding on or two spaces after a period. I am pretty sure that I learned in my high school typing class in the 1960s to make two spaces after a period, after a colon and after a semicolon.

As a matter of fact, I usually still do that — I just did it above! — but Microsoft Word usually flags it as an error.


154 posted on 02/01/2012 2:55:55 PM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Bigg Red

The double space was common practice with fixed fonts, as in typewritten. Proportional fonts insert a space-and-a-half automatically. That is why Word flags the double space as an error.


199 posted on 02/01/2012 6:15:09 PM PST by j_tull ("I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.")
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