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April 30th, 2010

PUNCTUATION: Dashes vs. Hyphens

Hyphen

Post by Cesar Rivera.

In this issue, hyphen tries to outwit users by doubling itself to replace em dash. Hyphen also tries to replace en dash in between dates and times. Meanwhile, en dash places itself between a series of numbers and em dash positions itself in the middle of a sentence to break for a side thought. Confused? You won’t be after this issue of PUNCTUATION.

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