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Kelvin Harrison Jr. & Lucy Boynton, Chevalier, Medusa Deluxe & Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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The Importance of Typography

An emailer declared that an end dash E end dash is so called because it's the same width as letter N. The real explanation talks back to the days of letterpress type when each character sat on its own block of metal. A unit of measurement nowadays defined as one 72nd of an inch.

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