In my opinion, the en dash is the most misused punctuation mark we have. Or I guess to be more accurate, the en dash is the punctuation we should use, technically, yet don’t use. I think most people are comfortable with the hyphen, so the en dash gets left out. But, that might be aContinue reading “The en dash (I say, writer’s choice)”
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The Em Dash (more controversial punctuation)
Move over, debate about the Oxford/serial comma, because now the debate is whether or not to use the em dash. As it turns out, one of my favourite punctuation marks is the em dash—and I will continue to use it, thank you very much. This weekend I was reminded about em dashes by a friendContinue reading “The Em Dash (more controversial punctuation)”