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...
In September, Merriam-Webster announced new words added to the dictionary, which included adorkable, MacGyver, yeet andshrinkflation. In the slang category, new additions includedjanky(of very poor quality),sus(suspicious or suspect) andlewk(a fashion look that is distinctive to the wearer and t...
suddenly buck-naked” (Carey). It’s a hyphenated version, but it still counts. So, my first piece of evidence for proper usage is found in this article
This is needed to match hyphenated house numbers that have their hyphen stripped from the reference data. • NIM064322 - Error geocoding an address that contains Z values with an ArcGIS 10 locator. • NIM064327 - Grids and Graticules Designer: Restore Decimal point in Decimal Degrees ...
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 ...
While I completely support Chaudhry's call forPakistanto make peace with India, I do wonder why India'sHindu SupremacistPrime Minister NarendraModiwould even seriously entertain such a thought if "India is relevant to the world" and Pakistan is not? And if Modi does agree to talks, what kind...
Their poor track record of being able to rebuild their brand in North America, for many people it has been synonymous with a poor quality and dishonesty. Gateway did started to do the same thing around the time they bought PC Direct in New Zealand (not the be confused with the PC Direct...
And I would say it’s changing, if I can use a hyphenated word, “America-first.” So if you look at every issue, Trump pushes that issue into putting Americans into a better position relative to the rest of th...
The finding that some systems were able to train high-performing models based on this corpus is additional evidence, beyond high inter-annotator agreement, that the quality of the CRAFT corpus is high. The overall poor performance of various systems indicates that considerable work needs to be don...