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		card_zero 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-... Not at all, no. Here's a few historical examples: 1903 edition of The Wizard of Oz — https://archive.org/details/newwizardofoz00baum/page/2/mode/... A page from Life magazine, 1894 — https://archive.org/details/sim_life_1894-08-23_24_608/page/... The Illustrated London News, 1843 — https://archive.org/details/illustrated-london-news-v002-184... The em dash pretty much just joins the two glyphs together. It's supposed to look that way.

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