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Sugar bee
- amariem25
- 7 years ago
- Wedding: September 2009
My husband and I always debate about this. I was taught to put two spaces between sentences. He thinks it is wrong! 🙂
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poll: Do you put a double or single space after your periods?
double space : (20 votes)
57 %
single space : (15 votes)
43 %
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Busy bee
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Busy bee
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Buzzing bee
- Ree723
- 7 years ago
- Wedding: July 2011
You’re right! Single space after commas and other ‘pause’ punctuation, but two spaces after ‘stop’ punctuation!
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Helper bee
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Bee Keeper
- jo.lee
- 7 years ago
- Wedding: September 2011
Associated Press (journalism) style says one space, so that’s how I always do it. If it’s an English paper or you weren’t trained as a journalist, two spaces are good! It just looks uneven to me now, so I stick with my single space.
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Buzzing bee
- Gingersnap
- 7 years ago
Single space for me!
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- aquawater
- 7 years ago
It depends on how desperate I am to make it to the next page in an essay. 😉 I remember being taught 2 spaces, but unless I’m trying to get extra pages on a paper, I don’t really use it.
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- CapeBoundBride
- 7 years ago
- Wedding: June 2011
@amariem25:I whole-heartedly agree with your husband. Double spaces were used when people typed on typewriters because of the typesetting. The spacing made the monotype easier to read. There is no need to do so on a computer.
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- Meowkers
- 7 years ago
- Wedding: August 2011
definitely double space. That’s the way I was taught in high school, college and law school.
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