Unlock the Mystery of the En Dash: The Punctuation Mark You Didn’t Know You Needed

Unlock the Mystery of the En Dash: The Punctuation Mark You Didn’t Know You Needed

By popular demand (i.e. one of you asked, and I thank you for that), here’s a post about the counterpart to the em dash and the hyphen. Let’s get to know the en dash, a special character with a specific function in writing.

What's an En Dash

An en dash is one of the punctuation marks that most people see all the time, but rarely think about how to use correctly. Here it is: –

Fun fact: the reason the en and em dashes have those names are because of their lengths. An em dash (—) is about the length of the letter m, and an en dash (–) is the length of the letter n.

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