I did Honours English and Honours Irish in school and studied Journalism in college for three years
twenty years ago and only learned recently from ChatGPT of the difference between a hyphen and the
two dashes! It's a small thing but to use them correctly can make your writing look more
professional I think! I have started to use the en dash recently, I am yet to use the em dash, but I am not
going to be too rigid about using it because while I think using it often looks a bit more professional in
some situations I think it looks a bit too much. I am only learning this though so don't quote me on the
area. :)
The different dashes often don't display on Blogger like on the heading of this post.
Update: I have updated many of my titles on my Youtube channels from plain hyphens to en
dashes. I am not going to edit every file I have done on Youtube even just for the titles as I have not
far off 1,000 files on Youtube. I updated - all my playlists titles; all the podcasts titles in my Dáil
playlists; and all the titles of the podcatsts in my current main channel, last channel, some of the
previous channel and all of my small Youtube channels (both active and inactive channels).
+ I have updated my Wikimedia accounts (Wikipedia, Vicipéid, Wikimedia Commons and Wikiquote)
and Linktree account which didn't take long.
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