11 poem, translated by Clare Cavanagh ... like those who leaped from the burning floors. The em dash in the final stanza echoes the one in the first, connecting those who jumped to the poet ...

How to Insert Em Dash in Word: 4 Easy-to-Follow Steps Your email has been sent Understanding the difference between an en dash and em dash 4 ways to insert an em dash in Microsoft Word Em dashes ...

The em dash (—) is a supremely useful (and fashionable) piece of punctuation used in writing and editing, often in place of a comma, colon, or parenthesis. While you might want to utilize it to ...

What’s the matter with an em dash or two, you ask?—or so I like to imagine. What’s not to like about a sentence that explores in full all the punctuational options—sometimes a dash ...

Today in the New York Times' Opinionator blog there's a love letter of sorts from Ben Yagoda, author and professor of English at the University of Delaware, to the dash. Not the em-dash ...

Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers, journalists and other grammar nerds — we’re sorry. In recent months, commenters on social media have zeroed in on ...

According to Merriam-Webster — yes, I’m purposefully being cliche, the em dash can be used to separate extra information in place of a comma, colon, or parenthesis. Google Docs will now ...

But online detectives have unfairly pounced on one venerable punctuation mark: the em dash. That’s the longest dash in the English language, so called because it’s about the width of the ...