Often hyphens are optional. Yet they’re still difficult. The rules are hard to decipher. Worse, no two editors hyphenate alike. So a reader trying to learn by example can end up extremely confused.

Hyphens (-) Hyphens are only used to combine certain words together. They are not strong enough to set off phrases or words from a sentence. Use hyphens in the following situations: Use in compound ...

Hyphens have fallen somewhat out of fashion, so longer compounds are getting rarer. But I’ll keep hyphenating 30-day-dry-aged beef and extreme-heat-related illness as long as the rules allow.

This adds hyphens when necessary on the top line of an email and throughout the text. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad. More For You. Text Disappears When Typing in Outlook or Word.

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about why people don’t use hyphens with domains and if there was something to be concerned about that they were missing. I’ve been working ...

Then Indians might find more truth than poetry in the words of Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, the Congress Party’s official historian’.”Differences in India are hyphens that unite, not dashes ...

Polywork announced today that it has raised a $28 million in Series B funding co-led by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Caffeinated Capital.