Dashes and hyphens
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Dashes and hyphens
What is British English usage when it comes to hyphens and en and em dashes?
Frankly, I have not been aware of the difference between the en dash and the hyphen before today! Can the en dash legitimately be represented by or replaced with a hyphen?
I am confused when it comes to compound adjectives.
Comments
Hi @norwegianblue
I suggest you should give a look at these:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/dash-and-em-dash
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/hyphen