China could clarify what the nine-dash line means — and reduce tensions — without giving away any of its territorial claims.

A dash is a similarly ambiguous term of measurement that typically comes out to twice as much as a pinch, or 1/8 of a teaspoon. “I’ll use this most often with liquid measure, like ‘a dash of hot sauce ...

There were 11 dashes to the line when it first appeared on an official map of the South China Sea islands in 1947 that was drawn up by the Republic of China.

Word’s automatic spelling and grammar checker will now flag anything other than one space after a period as wrong, that red squiggly line declaring double-spacing between sentences grammatically ...

Microsoft has made its typographical decree: Two spaces between sentences is too many.

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Microsoft has made its typographical decree: Two spaces between sentences is too many.

Using two spaces between sentences will be marked as an error in Microsoft Word. The style choice is a relic from the era of typewriters.