hyphen

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It was announced on Tuesday that Mr Mountbatten-Windsor's surname should be spelled with a hyphen.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

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

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025

But with the slash of a hyphen and the snip of a “20,” Mr. Evers changed 2024-25 to the year 2425.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

For his own part, Fuhrmann was happy to have taken on the hyphen and to have won.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Why isn’t there a hyphen in “today”? Lawks-a- mussy, what sort of punctuation chickens are we at the beginning of the 21st century?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author