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Em Dash: What is it and how do you use it? An em dash is a punctuation mark that can be used in many ways. What about the en dash vs em dash?

“I coined a new word. How do I get it into the dictionary?” This is, by far, the question lexicographers hear the most. People invent new words all the time, but which ones actually make it? When lexicographers decide what words to add to dictionaries, they try to imagine what words people actually want to look up. There are two important factors to keep in …