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My Bad...

Submitted September 5, 2008 - 1:13 pm by Pamela Hilliard Owens

Al, I for one, am guilty of the "caps"...a holdover from my otherwise excellent public school education.

1) I learned to *type* in 5th grade on my grandfather's very old and very heavy manual typewriter, and of course there were no italics or bolds in those ancient days, so caps were used for emphasis.

2) It was also drilled into me to add two spaces after a period before starting a new sentence.  I have since learned that is not one-space- only "AP-style", and find myself editing everything I write professionally to take out that extra space.

Old habits die hard (just ask McShame), and I am trying to change my evil ways.

I'm still on a PC; trying to become a Mac...

 

waterprise2 AKA Pam

Liberal with a Capital L!

 

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