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"Space Invaders: Why You Should Never, Ever Use Two Spaces After a Period". Slate. McArdle, Megan (14 January 2011). "You Can Have My Double Space When You Pry it From My Cold, Dead Hands". The Atlantic. Okrent, Arika (2 October 2013). "How Many Spaces Should There Be at the End of a Sentence?". Mental Floss. Rhodes, John S. (13 May 1999).
Until the early 2000s, the Modern Language Association (MLA) left room for its adherents to single or double sentence space. In 2008, it modified its position on sentence spacing to the following: In an earlier era, writers using a typewriter commonly left two spaces after a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point.
The Elements of Typographic Style states that only a single word space is required for sentence spacing. [21] Psychological studies suggest "readers benefit from having two spaces after periods." [22]
"Additional space at the ends of sentences is called 'French Spacing.' It is a very old practice, having been commonplace in books up through the 19th century" [7] "Adding two spaces after a period is called French spacing. French spacing was quite common in books before the 19th century. Later it became the norm for typewritten copy." [8]
The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point. is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation).
I typed two spaces after every period on punch cards, on paper tape, in FØRTRAN comments, in SNOBOL comments, in C comments, in every computer context that wasn't going to be parsed by machine. I typed two spaces after every period in TECO, in RUNOFF, in Word-11, in AppleWriter, in WordStar.
In 2019, when I took the stage with director Rayka Zehtabchi to accept the Academy Award for documentary short subject for “Period. End of Sentence,” I held the Oscar high and declared “a ...
Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence. Use an en dash (–) with before, and a space after – or use an em dash (—) without spaces (see Wikipedia:How to make dashes). Avoid using two hyphens (--) to make a dash, and avoid using a hyphen as a minus sign.