RE: Space bar -or- Spacebar

[<Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com>]

One of the constants of the English language is that hyphens and spaces between commonly linked pairs of words tend to disappear over time. "Space bar" was always headed for "spacebar". Probably futile to fight it.

-B.Henderson

-----Original Message----- From: Gene Kim-Eng

The patent for the earliest QWERTY typewriters and the documentation for 
the original IBM PC keyboard (the layout that is still standard today 
for most full sized computer keyboards) both use "space bar."

Gene Kim-Eng

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