Using Numbers, including Percentages
Style manuals do not agree on the issue of when writers should spell out numbers and when they should use numerals. And even a single...
Typing Characters That Don’t Appear on the Keyboard
One of the many advantages personal computers have over typewriters is that we can type a whole host of useful characters that are not visible...
En Dashes and Em Dashes
A number of our readers have written to ask us to explain the difference between the hyphen, the em dash, and the en dash. Distinguishing...
