response to third opinion request hi i'm here to give your third opinion i think it's important to keep in mind that this article is titled common english usage misconceptions it's not common english mistakes according to professional typography standards it is clear to me at least that the hypen is often misused there's no dash key on my keyboard i know how to make a dash however but i do web dev and work for a printing company and i just started a sentence with but and this one with and i know all these things are wrong but they are convenient and i'm writing this somewhat humorous third opinion for a few guys on an article talk page so in my mind the question is whether this is a misconception or just ignorance i believe that to properly call something a misconception it must be believed to be a rule when in fact such a rule is not correct i've never heard anyone say just use hyphens for everything it has only become the default because we have no dash keys so i would lean toward excluding this entry unless you want to change the scope of the list to include all common mistakes not just misconceptions hope this helps