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		venusenvy47 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where's Firefox going next? When I'm writing, I've always used en-dashes, but only because it's on my keyboard. Until people recently started talking about this, I didn't realize there was such a thing as en and en-dashes.

Rebelgecko 21 days ago [–]

FWIW I think the - character on qwerty keyboards is a hyphen, which is a smidge shorter than an en dash

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bombcar 20 days ago | [–]

On a Mac it’s easy to type n and m dashes using option and the hyphen key.

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