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.
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Update - I have just learned that although Blogger does not accept the en dash in post titles it does
publish the em dash in them. 😊
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(I have now updated the relevant post titles on this blog under a keyword search for my name here at
Darren J. Prior – I am not going to change anymore but I might use the em dash in post titles in general
on this blog going forward from now on).
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