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The Excessive-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has passed by the nickname Sprint since 2009. It’s an homage to the piece of punctuation that unites the 2 cities which were formally merged as one because the late 1800s.
The issue is, grammar nerds (of which I’m very a lot one) will let you know that dashes don’t conjoin two phrases—hyphens do. Grammar lovers will probably be pleased to hold forth on the variations between hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes and their numerous lengths and functions.
Okay, because you requested, en dashes, the width of the letter n, point out a variety, like 2009–2023. Em dashes, the width of the letter m, separate or emphasize textual content—like this. Hyphens, and solely hyphens, join two phrases. (I wrote about this again within the Story Behind the Nickname article in regards to the Winston-Salem Sprint on this website back in 2015.)
Eight years after we introduced this essential challenge to the staff’s consideration, the Sprint will make issues proper. Per the staff’s social media:
“The Metropolis of Winston-Salem and literary students have spoken. For one recreation this season the Sprint will probably be grammatically appropriate and play because the Winston-Salem Hyphens!”
And I’d add, kudos to the staff for accurately not hyphenating the adverb-adjective pairing “grammatically appropriate” of their announcement.
The Hyphens will play Could 6 as a part of Salute to Winston-Salem night time.
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