I didn’t know about em dashes, it was skipped in all my classes decades ago and I just thought the occasional long dash was a font thing.
I’m not used to using them and don’t plan to start
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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Default behaviour for Word is to auto correct hyphens to em dashes. It has annoyed me for years.