Who knew that leaving two spaces after a period drew so much ire from the snobby editors & typographers of the world? Here, Microsoft’s Robert Scoble introduces us to Bill Hill, who explains why you should never do it (and also why you should never underline, and also why The Scotsman is the most erudite newspaper in the whole world).

Then you have Taddle Creek magazine, who snickers and barks at anyone who would dare to send them a submission with two spaces after a period. My one and only attempt at self-inflicted literary humiliation was aimed at Taddle Creek, and it was back in the day when I, too, suffered from the dread condition of the double-space.

But it goes much further: Google finds 938 hits for the exact phrase “two spaces after a period”, some of which lead to such insight as, “Those people who learned to type on a typewriter had ‘typing two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence’ beaten into them by frustrated old maids with licorice on their breath.”, as well as this: “Secretaries…are irritated by the lowly IT tech guy who tells them that they’re using the system of digital text representation wrong…”

And the battle rages on.