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&mdash
Posted by Li Yar on January 23, 2004
In Reply to: &mdash posted by Fred on January 22, 2004
: : : Is it a word?
: : In printing there is an Em Dash and an En dash
: : N-Dash is a -
: : M-Dash is a longer dash a --
: No question that 'em' and 'en' are words. My question was raised
: by the first sentence in Maureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times:
: 'Washington - Whoa!' Are there three words in this sentence?
: If so, the second begins with the letter (?) '&'?
Now we know - battle of the pedants. Only a contentious jerk would suggest that a punctuation mark is a word.
2 words - "washington" and "whoa" simple as that.
