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<p class="MsoPlainText">Just one more note before we can put the hyphen-vs-en-dash question to rest:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">The wikipedia page [1[ uses the en-dash consistently. However, on the talk page [2] we find the following comment:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color:black">McGraw-Hill </span><span style="color:#C00000">(yes, hyphen)
</span><span style="color:black">publishing companies should ideally have a separate article<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Right now the history of the McGraw-Hill companies prior to the recent reorgs/divestments is being passed around in a disorganized manner between their successor corporations. They should really have a separate
article. […]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_Global">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_Global</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:S&P_Global">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:S&P_Global</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Whether their use of the en-dash for the successor companies is correct or not, I do not know. But at least, here is some support for the hyphen hypothesis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">I remember wasting too much time some years ago trying to get to the bottom of the mystery, with little success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">– Harald<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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