hyphen
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So he inserted a hyphen to help people say it correctly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
It was announced on Tuesday that Mr Mountbatten-Windsor's surname should be spelled with a hyphen.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
The lives of this family and millions of others are balanced on that flimsy hyphen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
The first is missing the hyphen that bolts together the pieces of the compound word that was supposed to remind readers of the problem with piranhas, man-eating.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
Mr. Tempest, unimpressed by the hyphened St. Clair, was unwilling to allow the courtship to proceed.
From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham
The shortening of the first line is never a blemish, but a too short second line following a hyphened first line is always a fault.
From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
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
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 Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
To meet the supposed legal exigencies the two names were simply hyphened.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
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