hyphen

So he inserted a hyphen to help people say it correctly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The New York Times analysis relies heavily on textual analysis of old emails and posts, and in particular incorrect hyphen usage and British spelling.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026

So what if some Gen Z influencers see a venti hyphen where you see a proud, versatile dash?

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

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.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023

Women who walked over the “heath” and read morocco-bound books and had two last names divided by a hyphen.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs — no question is too insignificant.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023

Missing hyphens or incorrect capitalization, ambiguities about singular and plural nouns or transitive and intransitive verbs - no question is too insignificant.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023

Who cares about hyphens, commas and capital letters?

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2022

We can blame scholar Richard Paul Jodrell for this gaffe, who, in his book The Philology of the English Language, left out hyphens in compound words.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2021

Some family members get hyphens and some don't.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

To meet the supposed legal exigencies the two names were simply hyphened.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley

Golden-nob is 'a variety of apple'; see E.D.D.: and as a special name, which the passage implies, it should be hyphened.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English

These slight differences are by no means accidental, because Alms-basket is hyphened to count as two words and thereby cause the long word to be the 151st word.

From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

Knew him before he married Miss Forbes of Glenluce, my wife's second cousin, and hyphened his name with hers, to keep the property in the family.

From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen

The shortening of the first line is never a blemish, but a too short second line following a hyphened first line is always a fault.

From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton