Writing with Ryan: The En Dash
The en dash is a sorely misunderstood mark of punctuation. In my experience, the poor bugger rarely sees the light of day, and when it does, it’s oft misused. Time and time again, I see manuscripts with hyphens in place of en dashes and en dashes in place of em dashes (which technically isn’t wrong, but more on that later). Thus, I’m going to try my hardest to do right by the underappreciated en dash by sharing with you the conventions of its use. Here we go. (more…)