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Found it online:On em dashes and other lingua interrupti
Subject:Found it online:On em dashes and other lingua interrupti From:Karen Schriver <ks0e -at- andrew -dot- cmu -dot- edu> To:Paul Hanson <PHanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com> Date:Tue, 30 May 2000 15:39:34 -0400
Hey Paul and other TECHWR-Lers (who asked if William Safire's article on
dashes was available in an electronic version),
I found a copy of the article I mentioned at the NYT online. You have to
sign in and make up a User ID and a password, but it is all free. The
article appears at: