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I, for one, will be holding on more dearly to the hyphen in my American identity.
I find it outrageous that the author, a fifth-generation American, will be "holding on more dearly to the hyphen" in his American identity.
After similar usage by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, who often referred to the hyphen connecting a person to more than one religious commitment.
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To use the hyphen is to clarify.
There are exceptions to the hyphen-dash rule.
One quick note: I'm going to continue to use the term "e-book," though the service has opted to drop the hyphen.
There has been rather a lot of talk recently of hard work: the mythical individuals who are thus wired – from politicians to Hollywood stars, households of folks so hard-working they sometimes have to drop the hyphen for efficiency.
One of the matters which really got John Humphrys' goat was the OED's decision to expunge the hyphen "from no fewer than 16,000 words" in 2007.
Let a dictionary be your guide for when to use the hyphen after a prefix.
For instance, if you were to leave the hyphen out of a word like re-examine, it would be reexamine, which confuse readers.
The majority of modern readers feel insulted, condescended to, and irked by having to count the hyphens after "b" to distinguish "bitch" from "bastard".
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