The hyphens and dashes used in English writing are often used inconsistently, regardless of whether the writer is a professional or not. Mister Punctual, a blog that posts articles about punctuation ...

(Editor's Note: Even though Seeking Alpha's system tends to adjust this form of punctuation automatically, it's good for writers to know how these marks work in different contexts). Hillary Rodham - ...

The dash and the hyphen are as different as the kiwi and the kiwi (the fruit and the animal). The hyphen (-) is used to hold two words or two parts of words together. The dash is used to add bonus ...

Grammar expert and enthusiast June Casagrande dives into the world of hyphens and how to actually use them in writing.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...

Last week was full of interesting news stories. The riddle of the dead body of a 29-year-old man that dropped from the undercarriage of a KQ plane preparing to land at London’s Heathrow Airport in ...

Law review style is to write number ranges using en dashes (–) rather than hyphens (-). I'd prefer if that wasn't the norm, but it is; and for the Journal of Free Speech Law, we decided to stick with ...

(Editor's Note: Even though Seeking Alpha's system tends to adjust this form of punctuation automatically, it's good for writers to know how these marks work in different contexts). Hillary Rodham - ...