Hyphen
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The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation.
First page of the first volume: the epistle of St Jerome to Paulinus from the University of Texas copy. The page has 40 lines.
Dash
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The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the en
Hyphen
…mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar…
1622 Okes-print of Othello, p. 19. Note use of dashes.