Free Range Librarian

K.G. Schneider’s blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003.

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Entries Tagged as 'God's Grammar'

Dashes versus Hyphens

May 24th, 2007 · 20 Comments

An FRL reader sent me a message yesterday politely chiding me for using hyphens in place of dashes. Gentle Reader is correct, but please let me whine: it’s not my fault.
The irony is that few things peeve me more–with the possible exception of its/it’s confusion–than hyphens used in lieu of dashes. And in that previous [...]

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