Posts from “Jun 2026”

It might surprise some people to learn that not all dashes are created equal; we have Em Dashes, En Dashes and Hyphens each with their own purpose. No one would blame you if you didn’t know because most of us aren’t grammar nerds.

This is probably why office applications like MS Word think they’re being helpful by automatically replacing certain characters, say 2 hyphens, with an appropriate dash. But it just makes the different dashes all the more invisible to the regular user.