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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

The lives of this family and millions of others are balanced on that flimsy hyphen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

So he knew that you couldn’t hear a hyphen!

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

Diggs spoke with The Times about the season finale of “Snowpiercer,” acting and hyphens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 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

Here are some exceptions to the “before or after” rule for hyphens in two-word descriptions: • If self or quasi is one of the words, always use a hyphen.

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

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

From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham

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

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

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

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley

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