Timeline for Hyphenating "Pulitzer Prize winning" as adjective
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
9 events
when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 3, 2018 at 17:45 | vote | accept | jdscomms | ||
May 3, 2018 at 16:19 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | @jdscomms: Right, though you’d still use a hyphen/dash in something like “a Monty Python–style sketch comedy show”. | |
May 3, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | jdscomms | CMOS 17 at 5.93 lists among its exceptions to hyphenating phrasal adjectives: "When a proper noun begins a phrasal adjective, the name is not hyphenated {the Monty Python school of comedy}," but it's not clear this applies in present case. Thanks for input, all. | |
May 3, 2018 at 6:03 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | @user9825893y50932: Fair enough, but this is fairly standard and nearly general-reference—Wikipedia was just the easiest thing to link to. There are loads of citations just searching for “en dash”: The Punctuation Guide, Grammarly, Daily Writing Tips, CMOS §6.80 (which I didn’t link partly because it’s paywalled), and several questions & answers already on ELU. | |
May 3, 2018 at 4:33 | comment | added | Arm the good guys in America | wikiPedia is quoting the 15th edition of the CMOS. That is two editions behind. Which is why wikipedia is not an authorative source. | |
May 3, 2018 at 0:42 | comment | added | English Student | Solid answer and I upvote! Proof of the pudding: google.com/search?q=%22pulitzer+prize+winning%22&ie= see how almost all sources have written Pulitzer Prize-winning as in your second option @jdscomms. Definitive proof comes from Ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
May 2, 2018 at 23:37 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | @jdscomms: You can just use a hyphen if you prefer; I think it’s perfectly understandable. I use the en dash just because I like how it provides some visual separation to encourage the reader to treat the compound as having higher “precedence” than the dash, i.e., “(Pulitzer Prize)-winning”, not “Pulitzer (Prize-winning)”, but it’s rarely ambiguous to just use a hyphen—or, honestly, even no hyphen at all. | |
May 2, 2018 at 23:25 | comment | added | jdscomms | Thanks, Jon, that's interesting. It seems a bit fussy, though, expecting readers to see and absorb the difference between a hyphen and an en dash. | |
May 2, 2018 at 23:16 | history | answered | Jon Purdy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |