For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...
I don’t talk much here about the en dash — the little punctuation mark that looks like it can’t decide if it’s a hyphen or a full-fledged dash. There are a couple of reasons I avoid the subject. For ...
Q: I’m confused. What is the difference between an em dash and an en dash? How can I type them easily using Microsoft Word? A: A dash is not a hyphen, although many writers err by substituting one for ...
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