hyphen

Hyphen, a San Jose-based startup founded four years ago, created the Augmented Makeline.

The reform will allow both partners to take on a double surname, with or without a hyphen, and for their children to take that name too.

Or perhaps the story of his panic at seeing a post-it note saying "please re-sign" on some documents, and not noticing the hyphen, wondered what he'd done to justify having to quit.

However, the minister warned "we have seen in the past how changing just one letter in a town or village name, or adding a hyphen to harmonize spelling, can lead to fierce disagreements in local communities".

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