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...
2019.05.22 • Internet speeds, city finances, Canada’s high-court interveners, primates, and hyphenated names. 2019.05.15 • Executions, populism, books in translations, social animals, and speedcubing. 2019.05.08 • Global food, Canadian candidates, visual questions from blind people, Chicago...
42. The bride who adopts a hyphenated last name after marriage can maintain connections with their past achievements. 43. Hyphenating names allows the bride to preserve her own identity while respecting tradition. 44. No matter what name the bride adopts, it is most important that the newly we...
A closed compound word is one with no spaces or hyphens, such askeyboardandbookstore. Becausehigh schoolis not a closed compound word, it’s incorrect to spell ithighschool. A hyphenated compound word is one with hyphens between the component words, such asmother-in-lawandfifty-three. Becaus...
You want to ban any and every representation of men behaving badly, and send women out into the world unwarned about the depths to which some men will happily sink to if allowed? You want to send women out unprepared and uninformed, into a world in which every incarnation of male sexuali...
Hyphenated, past-tense. Secondly, there’s nothing “old” about the idea. In the Bible, there are many verses that tell us that the husband is to be the leader of the family (e.g. “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife ...
This latter group welcomes the introduction of new words into the lexicon and, thus, will happily adopt the new word plugin. While we use plug-in in this book, here is a more practical answer: If you are searching in the documentation, use plug-in. If you are grepping or writing code...
We should note that this practice is in no way related to our own hyphenated last names, although it has inspired John to consider adding a hyphenated middle name so he can refer to himself in the third person as, “John-who-is-responsible-for-his-existence-Sommers-Flanagan,” which he ...
9. I love the fact that this paper didn’t just analyse the chemical composition, but also looked at the physical properties of sloes. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would ever need to know what the terminal velocity of a sloe is – but should this ever come up in a quiz, you...
As a calligrapher, event planner, and etiquette expert, I happily spend a great deal of time explaining to my clients the proper way to address their guests because I feel it is part of my job to ensure that their invitations go out the way they are supposed to. An envelope addressed th...