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		webstrand 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to uns... Its correctly used, just not common in American English. <https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed18/part2/ch06/ps...>

latexr 3 months ago [–]

Link is behind a login wall.

webstrand 3 months ago | [–]

Wild, apparently my institution pays for that, sorry for the dead link.

<https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/06/09/en-dashes-the-editors-ma...> quotes the relevant section here.

I can't find another source for the CMOS.

latexr 3 months ago | | | [–]

Thank you for the link and the correction.

mmooss 3 months ago | | | [–]

The Internet Archive has at least old versions of CMOS.

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