En-dash

The slightly-wider-than-a-hyphen punctuation used to separate years in a date inscription (1942 – 2024). Monument convention is en-dash with spaces, not hyphen. Old hand-cut stones often used a hyphen because that was easier to chisel; modern sandblasted stones almost universally use the en-dash.

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