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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