disks we now store inside of boxes that you plug wires into hyphenated words of varying length tubes that carry the information we used to store in books but also store on disks inside of boxes with blinking lights consumption of meat and meat like products As you can see, these are top ...
A hyphen connects two elements that are joined together to function as one word. Here are some examples of hyphenated words: best-seller, two-year-old, pre-Hanukkah, and anti-racist. An em dash cannot be used as a hyphen (and a hyphen, likewise, cannot be used as a hyphen). The rul...
I realize the irony of it all talking about Chinese American identity & the English language to a class of multilingual speakers from many countries in a place not the US at a school with a hyphenated identity. I’m not so sure now
I remember when I had been studying Chinese very hard for about three years, I had an interesting experience. One day I happened to find a Spanish-language newspaper sitting on a seat next to me. I picked it up out of curiosity. "Hmm," I thought to myself. "I've never studied Span...
To Trump, these “hyphenated” kinds of Americans mean trouble for his ilk. They aren’t part of the old dominant structure of this country like he was and therefore must be something less than him. You can tell by the way he talks about people. “Oh, look at my African-American over...
California native Johnny Sheffield, theson of a British former child actor, made his acting debut on the Los Angeles stage but soon transitioned to film. Handpicked by Johnny Weissmuller of the popular Tarzan series, Sheffield played "Boy" in seven of those films. After Tarzan, he starred as...
Language usage keeps evolving, and compound words or phrases have often become hyphenated or written as separate words, reflecting changing conventions in language and communication. This phenomenon is not unique to the question of whether it should be written as cellphone or cell phone. It is part...
California native Johnny Sheffield, theson of a British former child actor, made his acting debut on the Los Angeles stage but soon transitioned to film. Handpicked by Johnny Weissmuller of the popular Tarzan series, Sheffield played "Boy" in seven of those films. After Tarzan, he starred as...
18. When I first picked the berries pictured below, I thought the ones on the left were sloes and the ones on the right were bullace. I’m now fairly sure that they are all just sloes, but they were slightly bigger on one bush than on another – and there are good reasons why slo...
Durham is sufficiently near Raleigh that the two cities are sometimes hyphenated, although that's more deceptive than the local (to you and me) Bloomington-Normal and Champaign-Urbana, as each of the cities is a couple hundred thousand or more on its own, and it takes over an hour...