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.

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...