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Originally Posted by NatCh
Do the em dashes in question have spaces on either side of them?
I.e. "word — word" vs. "word—word"
The reason I ask is that the absence of spaces may make the parser think it's supposed to be a single word — I think the first is the "technically" proper usage, anyway ....
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Space are usually included (or they used to be) in Britain, but in the US the spaces are usually omitted. See the
wikipedia article on Dash.