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ChrisHB Apr 2021 3:44pm, 12 Apr 2021 20,852 posts	0 ChrisHB that explains why I had to master the concept of an em-dash and an en-dash at one stage of my career. The en-dash being a hyphen, if swittle is right. I daresay there are very important differences between an en-dash and a hyphen and I have stirred up a hornets' nest.
Oranj Apr 2021 4:12pm, 12 Apr 2021 2,552 posts	0 Oranj [There are and this isn't correct "The en-dash being a hyphen"]
NDWDave Apr 2021 5:45pm, 12 Apr 2021 14,657 posts	0 NDWDave The National Rail enquiries website was grayscale as a tribute to Prince Philip rather than because my phone had gone funny
57.5 Degrees of Pain Apr 2021 10:55pm, 12 Apr 2021 7,030 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain That there was a big fire (suspected arson) at the Findhorn Foundation eco village a few hours after I was running there yesterday. Not yet had a knock on the door...
Jason1969 Apr 2021 4:12am, 13 Apr 2021 12,843 posts	0 Jason1969 If the water between Denmark and Sweden freezes, and the Swedes walk over the Danes are allowed to hit them with sticks.
Oranj Apr 2021 8:37am, 13 Apr 2021 2,556 posts	0 Oranj [@57.5 that's a shame. By a strange coincidence, a friend of a friend of mine was also running round there yesterday]
Steve NordRunner Apr 2021 8:45am, 13 Apr 2021 626 posts	0 Steve NordRunner [Em and En are well-known to players of knock-out Scrabble, where a strategy is to memorise exhaustive lists of short permitted words. Other letters of the alphabet spelt out are also permitted.]
WtnMel Apr 2021 9:39am, 13 Apr 2021 2,153 posts	0 WtnMel [Steve - my partner was invited to join a scrabble group by a friend. But she didn't go back as she got irritated with the regulars who would put down obscure short words with a smirk on their face]
Sam Jelfs Apr 2021 9:45am, 13 Apr 2021 922 posts	0 Sam Jelfs That if you type two dashes in word, it will change it to a single hyphen (-- becomes –) which would be okay, except that I was writing a command that other people have to copy out to a command line, and now it fails. [I found this out after having sent out the document and the issues started coming in...]
Steve NordRunner Apr 2021 9:52am, 13 Apr 2021 627 posts	0 Steve NordRunner [I think you can fix that by removing it from the auto-correct dictionary.]