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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
I'm working on ten Dr. Dolittle books now, and the man was an mdash maniac. 10 children's books with total of over 16,000 mdashes. Oh, my.
(I know this because I was doing batch-editing of all in Notepad++. I am not really so compulsive as to SEEK for this statistic!)
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Hmmm … He invented the pushmi-pullyu which makes me willing to forgive many grammatical sins. Strictly speaking the character name is em dash with — being the HTML entitly name. It could be worse—years back in an English class, we were forced to read a book from the 1840s about a British author's travels in North America. The author loved en dashes, em dashes, 2 em dashes and 3 em dashes though he was two-timing them with footnotes.