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There are three types of "dash" but none can be illustrated here. A dash is distinct from a hyphen (-) which is used to form compound adjectives, or show separated words from line to line in text.

1) The figure dash, used within numbers, such as phone numbers

2) The en-dash (n dash), which is wider than a hyphen, is used to mark spans of time between dates (e.g 1750-1820) and to mark parenthetical expressions in sentences (widely replaced in non-academic text by parentheses).

3) The em-dash (M dash) which is even wider, is used like the en-dash for parentheticals, and to indicate quotes.

(You lose __ Calvin Coolidge).

*The formatting of this page reduces these to hyphens as they are not part of the font format. The em-dash can be simulated by an exponential underline, but it ruins the line height.

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