Learning new things....

[Crankin]

I finally learned that *a lot* is two words, AFTER I started teaching English.
I never heard of any of those mnemonics. They must be science related .

King Phillip, was the leader of a vicious Native American rebellion that killed thousands in MA in the 1600s. That probably accounts for the variation in the first mnemonic that Red Rhodie stated.
Of course, I didn't learn about King Phillip, until I had to teach a unit on Native Americans of the northeast. And I went to elementary school here, where in the 60's at least, we assumed there were never any Native Americans in Massachusetts.

[Tuckervill]

I learned that the word judgment only has one e.

Karen

[Aggie_Ama]

I learned that the word judgment only has one e.

Karen

I did not know this until the fall when I was convinced the TV had it wrong and I looked it up.

[GLC1968]

I just learned that it's no longer correct to type two spaces after a period ending a sentence! Showing my age - I still do and it's a habit I'll probably never break.

I also learned how to make codling moth traps this weekend and that lemon scented ammonia still smells nothing like lemons.

[divingbiker]

I just learned that it's no longer correct to type two spaces after a period ending a sentence! Showing my age - I still do and it's a habit I'll probably never break.

Really? Who gave "them" permission to do that?

[solobiker]

I just learned that it's no longer correct to type two spaces after a period ending a sentence! Showing my age - I still do and it's a habit I'll probably never break.

Wow, that is news to me. I am still going to do it out of spite

[OakLeaf]

Spell checkers will fix it for you. I had to learn to stop that since I do a lot of transcribing.

That custom ended with "proportional spacing" - before PCs even. It goes back to typewriters with fixed width fonts.

[Tuckervill]

To confuse things even more, if you have a Blackberry, and you put two spaces after a sentence in an email, it automatically adds the period and capitalizes the next letter. So, even if I WANTED to change to the one space after a period, I couldn't do it on my BB (unless I wanted to give up this feature).

Karen

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I too like how two spaces look after a period. But I do most of my writing online, and most blogs/forums, etc now eliminate the extra space anyway, so I'm wasting effort.
I'm not liking it, but since I've started my dulcimer blog, in the name of efficiency I'm retraining myself slowly lately.