At least for me it isn’t a question of fitting the slices in the pan, it’s that otherwise the center of the bacon strip will be overdone while the ends are still undercooked.
Hmm… at least on my older (2010) version of Word em, en, and nonbreaking spaces have their own characters when in show formatting mode, but no visible difference between regular spaces and after period spaces.
Microsoft has banned 2 spaces between sentences. They own the world so it must be up to them.
I can’t open a can of soda without tapping the top.
On railroad locomotives, the oil change cycle is Never* – the crankcase hold about 300 gallons and it’s just too expensive to do on a regular basis.
They do, however, draw off a half-pint at the end of each run (a few hundred miles) and send it to a lab for analysis, looking that the polymer chains aren’t breaking too badly and there are no suspicious metal particles floating around in there.
*In actuality this means about 100,000 miles when the prime mover is removed, torn down, and rebuilt.
I always shake my gallon of milk before I use it. When I was younger, my mom bought non-homogenized milk, either because that was all that was available or because it was cheaper, I don’t know which. So you had to shake it to mix the milk and cream together before you used it. That’s no longer the case, but it’s an ingrained habit of growing up that I give the jug a hearty agitation before pouring.
I do the same thing with orange juice to mix the pulp evenly. My kids don’t like pulp and my wife has bought nothing but pulp-free for the last 15 years. But my brain sees a gallon container of orange liquid in the fridge and my muscle memory automatically shakes the jug until I get to the table.
The server hung/timed out while I was posting and I thought my corrections got through.
Oddly the pulp is just about the only thing that make OJ better than sugar water with vit C.
That probably wasn’t ever necessary for you. A few taps on a can does nothing to stop it from spurting when opened. My research indicated that after many hundreds of taps the can will stop spurting, but there may have been a problem in my methodology.
The rule is (and always has been) two spaces for a monospaced font; one space for a proportional font.
Typewriters had monospaced fonts,* so two spaces were needed. Most word processors use Times Roman, which is proportional, so one space is enough. I use Courier, so I use two spaces (part habit and part thinking Times Roman is not a very good looking font).
*Proportional font typewriters did exist, but were expensive and rarely used.
But again,whether monospaced or proportional, having two spaces at the end of a sentence gives an unambiguous signal that it’s the end of a sentence. If I’m trying to get an accurate sentence count or break a passage up into individual sentences, I don’t need the software parsing something like “Toward the end of the war Franklin D. Roosevelt made the decision to drop Henry A. Wallace from the 1944 presidential ticket.” into three sentences.
Why do you need or want an accurate sentence count?
I write, edit, and layout a newsletter, and find it useful to keep a total word count to track how much space I’ve filled. But I’ve never even considered wanting to know the sentence count.
Microsoft reads the Dope!
Just today CNN came out with an article that states:
"Microsoft has made its typographical decree: Two spaces between sentences is too many.
The style choice will now be marked as an error in Microsoft Word – and users who press the space bar twice after a period will be met with those dreaded blue squiggly lines."
Big deal, it doesn t really matter one way or the other. The people that get het up about this are the same ones that hate Comic sans.
Well, I would write that as:
Toward the end of the war Franklin D Roosevelt made the decision to drop Henry A Wallace from the 1944 presidential ticket.
dropping the periods. I’ll always done that as it seems logical. (Captain) Surely it’s obvious that the lone capital letters are abbreviations?
I will add that I have been writing stuff for publication most of my life, but I have never heard about the two-spaces rule until today.
Not putting a period after an abbreviated name like that is contrary to virtually every style guide I’ve ever heard of. You’re free to do it yourself, of course. But you’ll be on your own.
Before some other smart-ass – besides me – comes along to point it out, yes, Harry S. Truman did not have a middle name. (According to Snopes, his parents couldn’t decide which of two S-named relatives to honor, so gave him just the initial S.) This has led some people to assert that his S shouldn’t take a period, because it’s not an abbreviation of anything. However, as Snopes points out, Truman himself used the period, both in his signature, and in his personal letterhead. That would lead me, as an editor and creator of style guides, to follow his example and not create an exception to the standard style.
It was always considered necessary to put two spaces after a sentence when carving in stone. It was a real pain in the butt if you didn’t, your editor would throw that stone down in the quarry and you’d have to start all over again. Don’t get me started on “eats spears and leaves”.
The Philippines, an independent country, follows American spelling practices. Thanks for punting us out of the universe.
Typical imperialist…:mad:
I’ve published or edited books (both fiction and non-), textbooks, workbooks, online educational materials, manuals, magazine articles, and goodness knows what-all else.
Word count is very common. In educational publishing in particular, line count can often be a valuable measure. Once in a while I’m asked for a character count (or given a min/max for that). I have never been asked for a sentence count. I’m also curious under what circumstances this would be an important determination of anything.