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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

CHAPTER

The History of N Dashes

An N dash named because it's a dash as wide as a lowercase letter N. If you use dashes within sentences rather than within words they should probably be N dashes, but says Tom, no one cares. M dashes E-M have somewhat fallen out of fashion and have been replaced by the ellipsis - which I O V is ridiculously when in your novels. They were originally as wide as the line of font was tall to indicate a pause in reading.

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