one or two spaces after periods?

[Anonymous]

Seems like twentysomethings and under and fiftysomethings+ tend to use 1 space. And those in between those ages tend to use 2 spaces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's also some new-fangled thing about putting the punctuation after quotes, not before as I was taught. As in "I want things to remain the same", she said. Drives me nuts, but our editors won't let me do it the old way.

Also, the language gurus seem to keep switching whether you spell out numbers from 1-10, or put the "ordinal." I just go with the flow on that one, it's an easier habit to break.

I've noticed that in books published in other countries, you don't see the period and comma within quotes. Has this been a recent change or have we just always done it differently in the United States?

When I was a copy editor (years ago), the stylebook rule was that the punctuation was inside the quote marks if it was a complete clause (subject and verb) in quotations, but outside the quote marks if it was an incomplete clause in quotations. Can't say whether the standard has changed.