Etymologies
- Named because the symbol (–) has the same width as the letter 'n', approximately half the width of an em dash (Wiktionary)
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Marks
names of punctuation marks, accent marks, and other graphic signs and graphical characters used in printed, written, or digital text.
comma, period, parenthesis, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, slash, stroke, brackets, dash, em dash, en dash and 72 more...
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Design lingo
dog's breakfast, widow, colophon, em dash, en dash, ligature, sad mac, marching ants, lede, hed, poop, smartquotes
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points, accents, and curious characters
terms for punctuation, accents, typography, etc.
guillemet, ellipsis, tilde, diaeresis, dieresis, umlaut, virgule, pilcrow, alinea, etc., hyphen, em dash and 16 more...
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The Glyphs & How to Name Them
Being a list of the proper names of glyphs, both exotic and common, found in the typographer's toolbox.
apostrophe, colon, brackets, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation point, question mark, full-stop, period, parentheses, guillemet and 60 more...
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kewpid This is used to indicate 'through', such as in dates and page numbers. Cf em dash and hyphen.
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Dec 9, 2007
rolig This little mark (–) can make so much difference. Sadly, too often a hyphen is used instead. Dec 9, 2007