It's not even on a standard keyboard, unlike the shorter en dash. You have to make an effort to insert the em dash, and ChatGPT can input it far more quickly than a human. You may like ChatGPT ...

Ever had that moment when ChatGPT's writing style gives itself away? The AI assistant has a peculiar punctuation habit that experts now call the "ChatGPT ...

Nowadays, the em dash is used in myriad ways from setting off an example to introducing a list to replacing parentheses. Its name comes from the world of the printing press: the line is the width of a ...

Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat. Its usage in English books has been slashed almost in ...

I’m talking about the poor, misunderstood semicolon. Yes, that most elegant of punctuation marks – sitting elusively somewhere between an en-dash and a colon – is officially under threat. Its usage in ...

Grammar nerds will attest to the versatility of the em dash, not to be confused with the shorter en dash (–) or the even shorter hyphen (-). The em dash allows writers to freely — and wildly — spill ...

Here’s what you had to say: I use a semicolon where a pause needs to be longer than a comma, but not a full stop; em dashes (not "en dashes") I always use in pairs – never singly – to drop ...