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Comment by indigodaddy

5 months ago

I always thought the proper usage was no space before but one space after-- like this.

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wizzwizz4  5 months ago

There's no "proper usage" for any feature of English: it's all by consensus. However, I have seen that in published books from the 1900s.

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