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Welcome back for our final installment from the horizontal language department. Previously we discussed the em dash and the en dash. Today we will learn about the shortest in the dash-like family, the hyphen.
Hyphen basics
Hyphens link:
- a prefix or a suffix to a word; and
- two or more words together
Hyphenslinking prefixes and suffixes
One of the most difficult questions when it comes to this topic is whether to hyphenate. In general, there is a movement away from hyphenation when it comes to prefixes and suffixes.
Think about the words bicycle and misinformed. If we added a hyphen before these prefixes, the words would look like this: bi-cycle and mis-informed. However, due to the trend away from hyphenation, these words now look wrong to us with their hyphens.
Still, there are times when we include hyphens with prefixes and suffixes. Today, one of the hyphen’s…
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