Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(1)
- The subscriber ID is case-sensitive (if yours contains letters) and must include any hyphens.
Similar(59)
The hotel has since been known as the Waldorf Astoria New York, without any hyphen, though this is sometimes shortened to the Waldorf Astoria.
You can usually ignore any symbols, hyphens, slashes or numbers in the sub-heading terms.
The dictionary is not dropping all hyphens.
Separate the two words of any number under one hundred with a hyphen.
This is generally not done in modern writing, so you shouldn't feel any need to include these superfluous hyphens unless you're specifically trying to mimic an old-fashioned tone or style.
(Steve Smith) ★ American Composers Orchestra (Thursday) Gabriel Kahane, a musician whose diverse interests and stylistic breadth threaten to wear out any journalist's hyphen key, takes center stage for the premiere of his "Crane Palimpsest," a vocal work that conjoins Hart Crane's historic Brooklyn and Mr. Kahane's contemporary milieu.
Do not add any space or hyphen in your voucher number.
In this case, the hyphens don't make the term any easier to understand.
One could argue about whether a hyphen is needed for clarity, but in any case, we should be consistent.
The chapters on the history of hyphens and quotation marks are as interesting as any chapters on the history of hyphens and quotation marks could possibly hope to be: the chapters on the interrobang and the @ symbol are entertaining as well as informative; and the chapter on the history of the anthropomorphic manicule, with its ever-insistent finger and fist, is a must-read.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com