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One space after a period. Not two. Here’s why.
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One space after a period. Not two. Here’s why.

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Many people still put two spaces after a period. “That’s what my English teacher taught me,” they say. The practice is a holdover from the era of the typewriter when characters all took up the same amount of space. For example, an “i” took exactly the same amount of space as an “m.” So the […]