Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young ...

What makes em dashes—or “ChatGPT hyphens” as some now call them—such a dead giveaway that somebody is using a chatbot? The answer is that it’s not easy to find them on a modern keyboard, let alone on ...

Among them: the humble em-dash – now inaccurately but damningly derided as the ‘ChatGPT hyphen’. Ant Melder’s part of a team fighting back with a new punctuation mark that the bots can’t ...

The em dash has been so widely adopted by AI-generated text that even when used by human hands, it begs the question: was this actually written or apathetically prompted? So, today we’re launching a ...

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The dreaded em dash. Ah, ChatGPT. ... Instead, we prefer an en dash. And what the heck is an en dash? It’s not as long as an em dash and it doesn’t bash into nearby words.

Indeed, the debate has not always been confined even to the hyphen-en-em dash spectrum. One 1890s anthology of the poet’s work took most of her dashes out and replaced them with mere (gasp!) commas.

She’s right. The em dash isn’t some fringe punctuation mark. Sure, it’s used less often than its siblings – the en dash and the humble hyphen – and it’s more common in the US than the UK.

Do you know the difference between the em-dash, en-dash, and hyphen (Chapter 8)? I didn’t either: respectively to separate phrases, to use between numbers, and to use with compound words.

In his second attempt, Pearce ran the unofficial 40-yard dash in 4.47 seconds. That number helped improve his draft stock and he’s now expected to go in the first round of the NFL Draft in April.