En dash, em dash, hyphens—how to use them and how to create them in WordPress
Pretty Neat!
How many of you writers differentiate properly between the usage of the hyphen, the en dash and the em dash? Not yours truly! Until today, that is. I hereby vow—well, not exactly, of course—to explain to you how to use these three little beauties properly in your writing and to then use them properly myself.
According to this piece on Get it Write Online…
The hyphen is used like this:
Twentieth-century
or
Well-being
The en dash (which is the width of the letter N) is used like so:
7:00PM–9:00PM
or
August 17–September 2
And the em dash (which is the width of the letter M) is used like this:
I went to the store—the one on Keren Hayesod—and I bought the damn apple.
or
The apple turned out to be rotten—or so I believe.
Now how do you create en and em dashes in WordPress?
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Ann Kilter 2:33 am on April 19, 2014 Permalink |
Really…have a hard time makibg them in regular Word.
blueribbonfair 1:41 pm on April 19, 2014 Permalink |
I know it. So much use of the brain, it hurt.