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Re: Hyphenation best practices

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jan 5, 2010 11:33AM

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Geof Collis wrote:
> not only because of what he's stated  but also because JAWS speaks it
> as em- not - so it would come out like  blue em- collar instead of blue-collar

But the use of an em dash, or any dash for that matter, in
"blue-collar" would be very incorrect. The appropriate character is a
hyphen.

Jared