Problem solved...get some sleep!

Please please please, no space.

Where did you learn that?

I've always done it that way, even in formal papers in my graduate school. No one ever corrected me.

I've just noticed over the past few years no space, so, I've been losing a lot of sleep worrying about this.

None of them called for a space. Now that the replies have laid the matter to rest, I think you deserve a good snooze.

TYY

YES!

Amazing no one ever corrected me, not even in graduate school.

unless you were educated in the past few years with the b.s. that's happening, but as you apparently weren't, its a puzzlement.

I grew up typing term papers with footnotes and bibliography. My papers tended to be loooog, with extensive footnotes. Profs were sticklers for the rules, and so was I. But even in those days, an extra space was not something likely to be called out.

I was always under the impression that my papers had to be perfect in every way, no typos etc etc

I guess they all didn't care about that lapse.

In Army Infantry Officer Candidate School, I once turned in a paper one minute late. I'd been Student Company Commander for a week, and the paper was my evaluations of the subordinate leaders in the company.

For being one minute late, my punishment was that I had to write a 10,000 word essay on leadership. This, on a weekend when we had a pass. My roommate volunteered to stay the weekend to help me write the essay, and we both wrote tons of BS frantically.

We were getting down to the wire and didn't see how we could make the word count when I remembered a line I saw in an Army reg or manual. While we usually hear that "a picture is worth 1,000 words," this Army publication said that "a picture is worth 10.000 words."

So I clipped the 'Follow Me' image that was on the cover of all our OCS publications...



...and stapled it to a sheet of paper, and stapled the '10.000 words' quote below it.

I might have even turned in that assignment one minute late--but I never heard another word about it.

however, we were discouraged from over use.

Don't say die ever.

It's the promiscuity and sloppiness of English that make the language what it is.

English embraces new words, concepts, and grammars without much fuss.

Grammar "rules" in English are as likely to run amok as spelling rules.

Something like today's BBC news feed would be almost incomprehensible to a Victorian Age English gentleman:

I taught English.

I realize that my writing is certainly not always correct but English is my second language.

meaning--no big deal

how i miss her sage wisdom and advice!

The rule you learned is a relic of fixed-width typefaces.

these are the voyages of the Starship GrammarPolice.