hyphen

The New York Times analysis relies heavily on textual analysis of old emails and posts, and in particular incorrect hyphen usage and British spelling.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026

Versions with and without the hyphen have been used in the past, but a 1960 Privy Council announcement used the hyphenated version, which will be used from now on.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

“When you put a hyphen between two things, it almost makes it sound like they're somehow equal,” Zahr said.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023

For his own part, Fuhrmann was happy to have taken on the hyphen and to have won.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

Why isn’t there a hyphen in “today”? Lawks-a- mussy, what sort of punctuation chickens are we at the beginning of the 21st century?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs — no question is too insignificant.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023

Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs - no question is too insignificant.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023

Who cares about hyphens, commas and capital letters?

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2022

Diggs spoke with The Times about the season finale of “Snowpiercer,” acting and hyphens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

One of the hardest things to figure out with hyphens is how to use them in two-word descriptions.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

These slight differences are by no means accidental, because Alms-basket is hyphened to count as two words and thereby cause the long word to be the 151st word.

From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin

Golden-nob is 'a variety of apple'; see E.D.D.: and as a special name, which the passage implies, it should be hyphened.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English

Knew him before he married Miss Forbes of Glenluce, my wife's second cousin, and hyphened his name with hers, to keep the property in the family.

From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Allen, Grant

To meet the supposed legal exigencies the two names were simply hyphened.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.

Mr. Tempest, unimpressed by the hyphened St. Clair, was unwilling to allow the courtship to proceed.

From The Simpkins Plot by Birmingham, George A.