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

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

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

“When you put a hyphen between two things, it almost makes it sound like they're somehow equal,” Zahr said.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023

When a word breaks off at the end of a line in your newspaper and continues on the next line, a hyphen is what links the syllables together.

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

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

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

“It sharpens all those hyphens into so many knives and daggers,” said Lee in a Senate floor speech intended to stop the motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2020

Many hyphens show up where they’re not wanted.

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

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

Mr. Tempest, unimpressed by the hyphened St. Clair, was unwilling to allow the courtship to proceed.

From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham

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

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley

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

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