Fun ‘n sun?

It's being used as an abbreviation for "and" -- Fun and sun.


One very minor thing: That's supposed to be an apostrophe in front of the n. It was incorrectly converted to an open single quote mark by the autocorrect function of a program such as Microsoft Word. (MS Word always does that when you begin a word with an apostrophe.)

Yup, what Monger said.

Well, just to be extra picky, there should be two apostrophes -- one for each letter that was left out of the full word. So: Fun 'n' Sun...

Thank you all.

Regarding apostrophe, Wy used tow short horizontal line in his post, and I always used it like Wy does; while there was someone told me should use a long horizontal line. I don't know if he was right.

Thank you all.

Regarding usage of dash, Wy used tow short horizontal line in his post, and I always used it like Wy does; while there was someone told me should use a long horizontal line. I don't know if he was right.

Hiya Oristar, Apostrophes are one short little mark, just as they are shown here. In some typefaces, the apostrophe curves in (to the left). But it's always one short mark.

Dashes vary. Two hyphens (--) are the equivalent of one dash, called an em dash. My word processing program will automatically turn two hyphens into one dash. BTW, the dash is called an em dash because it's the width of a capital M.

Yeah, but in Oristar's post it was curving the other way (to the right), which is why I mentioned it.

Monger, I just took a second look. You're right, of course.

Oristar, That's the strangest apostrophe I've ever seen.

Oristar's WP program or browser or whatever probably automatically used an open-single-quote because there was a space in front of the '. The only reason mine doesn't look like that is that the open and close quotes look the same in this typeface...

The -- method is a typewriter convention... A "real" dash can be accessed in Windows programs by using Num Lock. Hold down the Alt key and type 0151 on the number keypad and Voila: ?- ! Lots of special characters can be accessed this way; Google ASCII for a list. (I much prefer ?-; I use -- here a lot because it's faster...)

p.s. Oristar, I'm a she
p.p.s. An en dash (yeah, the width of an N) is Alt0150. Technically, it should be used in phone numbers and hyphenated words, leaving only end-of-line breaks for the lowly hyphen... Or end-of-line breaks, I should say.

Wy, En dashes instead of hyphens? I thought en dashes were used for ranges (15-20 years ago) and for some complex hyphenation issues. I'm using hyphens for hyphenated words and phone numbers.

Hi Roberta,
Hyphens for end-of-line, mid-word breaks; dashes for you-know, where dashes go; and en dashes for everything else. Ranges like 4-5 years? That would be ens too, theoretically. Nobody does it, tho, beyond some publishers (and a couple of picky proofreaders). Feel free to carry on with hyphens...