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Emily Dickinson was fond of the em dash—a powerful endorsement if ever there were one.
I love a good dash. But Sir Ernest Gowers warned us about their seductiveness:
The dash is seductive: it tempts the writer to use it as a punctuation-maid-of-all-work that saves him the trouble of choosing the right stop.
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Emily Dickinson was fond of the em dash—a powerful endorsement if ever there were one.
I love a good dash. But Sir Ernest Gowers warned us about their seductiveness:
The dash is seductive: it tempts the writer to use it as a punctuation-maid-of-all-work that saves him the trouble of choosing the right stop.