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Jan 21, 2019 at 4:18	comment	added	markinboone		As a copy editor, I am aware hyphenating prefixes is less in vogue (hence my use of "archaic"), no doubt in part to electronic communication and the simplification of spelling. (reuters.com/article/us-britain-hyphen-1/…) The dictionary spelling for email has evolved from E-mail. Advice was given to hyphenate if you fear the reader will stumble. My point: most readers can parse the syllables for a word that begins with e and has re prefixed to it without the hyphen, just as we read heteronyms without confusion.
Oct 7, 2017 at 14:28	comment	added	Janus Bahs Jacquet		There’s nothing archaic about using a hyphen to separate a prefix from a root. Most of the words you mention as parallels are of different word classes, which makes it infinitely easier to tell them apart by syntactic clues alone; the ones who aren’t remain ambiguous unless context makes it clear ahead of time what you’re talking about, but there is sadly no way to distinguish them. Words like recover are equally ambiguous, sometimes even in context, but they happen to have a readily available and natural means of distinction. Advice to avoid making use of those means is just bad advice.
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Feb 24, 2017 at 18:52	history	answered	markinboone	CC BY-SA 3.0